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		<title>Australia needs more doctors &#8212; but does it need more medical schools?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/18/australia-needs-more-doctors-but-does-it-need-more-medical-schools/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 03:05:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Australia has a shortage of doctors. There has been a shortage in the bush for years, and now it is hard for many patients even in metro areas to find a GP to take them on, writes <b>a Perth-based doctor</b> and medical academic.]]></description>
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		<title>How doctors are drugged on pharmaceutical company spin</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/20/how-doctors-are-drugged-on-pharmaceutical-company-spin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 02:23:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Doctors are advised to avoid pharmaceutical promotion: that was the conclusion following the first review to exhaustively examine all the available literature on the information from drug companies to doctors. <b>Dr Geoffrey Spurling</b> from the University of Queensland reports.]]></description>
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		<title>Why doctors can&#8217;t decline an abortion</title>
		<link>http://www.quadrant.org.au/magazine/issue/2009/10/labor-s-attack-on-conscience</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last years abortion law changes in Victoria raise some interesting ethical issues for doctors. Even doctors that are morally anti-abortion must now legally participate in it, explains <b>Julian McGauran</b>. ]]></description>
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		<title>PSA tests: evidence &#8212; at last!</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/20/psa-tests-evidence-at-last/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If doctors were paid by capitation (i.e. by the number of people they serve) or by salaries would there be so many PSA tests? <b>Gavin Mooney</b> writes.]]></description>
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		<title>Stop blaming doctors for the health system</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/04/stop-blaming-doctors-for-the-health-system/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail. And so John Menadue, who has undeniably hit a few nails on the head in his time, continues to bang on for 30 years, writes <b>Dr Graham</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>How drug companies are infiltrating public hospitals</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/27/how-drug-companies-are-infiltrating-public-hospitals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Drug companies are paying undisclosed honoraria to doctors to have their sales representatives sit in on patient consultations, writes <b>Dr Ian Haines</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>New trial of physician assistants deserves support</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/18/new-trial-of-physician-assistants-deserves-support/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/18/new-trial-of-physician-assistants-deserves-support/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Physician assistants are an option for many countries with numerous small isolated and underserved communities with poorer health outcomes, writes <b>Dr Dennis Pashen</b>. ]]></description>
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		<title>Are they terrorists? For that matter, are they doctors?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/07/05/are-they-terrorists-for-that-matter-are-they-doctors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/07/05/are-they-terrorists-for-that-matter-are-they-doctors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Never mind wetting ourselves over the extent of terrorism screening for section 457 medicos, we barely check that they’re doctors. And we don’t check that they’re professionally adequate. ]]></description>
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