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		<title>Tackling health waste is about more than &#8216;a few bad apples&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/17/tackling-health-waste-is-about-more-than-a-few-bad-apples/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/17/tackling-health-waste-is-about-more-than-a-few-bad-apples/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 01:50:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Sweet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doctors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health funding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Too often we seem to forget in debates about our mythical "health system" that much healthcare is provided by private interests, whether private practitioners or companies.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>45</slash:comments>
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		<title>Open disclosure is no silver bullet</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/2011/06/06/disclosure-of-million-dollar-pharma-payments-to-health-professionals-will-it-help/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/2011/06/06/disclosure-of-million-dollar-pharma-payments-to-health-professionals-will-it-help/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 23:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doctors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[glaxosmithkline]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=227709</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is moving to be more transparent about how much it pays health care professionals, but GP <b>Dr Peter Mansfield</b> has mixed feelings about the announcement.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/2011/06/06/disclosure-of-million-dollar-pharma-payments-to-health-professionals-will-it-help/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Dominique Strauss-Khan</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/19/dominique-strauss-khan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/19/dominique-strauss-khan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 03:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brocial Network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Building the Education Revolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doctors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dominique Strauss Kahn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[France]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=224059</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Crikey reads have their say.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>How the Patel case has changed the world of health care for ever</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/07/05/how-the-jayant-patel-case-has-changed-the-world-of-health-care-for-ever/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/07/05/how-the-jayant-patel-case-has-changed-the-world-of-health-care-for-ever/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 03:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[QLD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[american health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doctors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jayant patel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medical authorities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medical issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[overseas trained doctors]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some doctors are concerned about Jayant Patel's conviction for manslaughter and his sentence to seven years imprisonment. Why? Because it sets a dangerous precedent, writes <b>Professor Merrilyn Walton</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>The uncertain, scary future for doctors</title>
		<link>http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2010/06/gawande-stanford-speech.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2010/06/gawande-stanford-speech.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 01:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science & Tech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doctors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US healthcare]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=146821</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are now more than 13,600 known diseases, meaning doctors become specialists and ignore the medical system as a whole, <b>Dr Atul Gawande</b> told Stanford’s School of Medicine graduating class.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Reading habits of overachieving doctors</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/culture-mulcher/2010/05/27/reading-habits-of-highly-successful-doctors/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/culture-mulcher/2010/05/27/reading-habits-of-highly-successful-doctors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 02:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>W H Chong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science & Tech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doctors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reading]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=141837</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What does a highly successful doctor read? <b>W H Chong</b> listens as three doctors with massive IQs recount their favourite books, escapist fiction and Freud in medicine.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/culture-mulcher/2010/05/27/reading-habits-of-highly-successful-doctors/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Devine: The rot infecting our hospitals</title>
		<link>http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/its-time-we-listened-to-the-doctors-20100120-mlna.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/its-time-we-listened-to-the-doctors-20100120-mlna.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doctors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hospitals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nsw public hospitals]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=111137</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The major issue affecting our hospitals isn't lack of funding, it's dealing with the insane and complicated bureaucracy that entangles multiple hospitals together. Time for communities to take back ownership of their local hospital, writes <b>Miranda Devine</b>. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/its-time-we-listened-to-the-doctors-20100120-mlna.html/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Diary of a surgeon: death of overseas-trained doctors</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/12/22/diary-of-a-surgeon-death-of-overseas-trained-doctors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/12/22/diary-of-a-surgeon-death-of-overseas-trained-doctors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 02:22:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diary of a Surgeon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doctors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[English]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[English language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[overseas trained doctors]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=107591</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hospitals and regulators, if they are satisfied with the supervisory structure around overseas trainees, should be able to approve their employment in the system, writes Professor <b>Guy Maddern</b> from St Anywhere.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/12/22/diary-of-a-surgeon-death-of-overseas-trained-doctors/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Doctors on the market?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/28/diary-of-a-surgeon-doctors-on-the-market/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/28/diary-of-a-surgeon-doctors-on-the-market/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diary of a Surgeon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doctors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medical ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pharmaceutical industry]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/28/diary-of-a-surgeon-doctors-on-the-market/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Marketing of products is something all surgeons must live with on a daily basis. Representatives visiting and discussing new products is appropriate. Free giveaways are not, writes <b>Professor Guy Maddern</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Victorian abortion law: overriding the conscience of doctors</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/27/victorian-abortion-law-overriding-the-conscience-of-doctors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/27/victorian-abortion-law-overriding-the-conscience-of-doctors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[VIC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abortion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abortion law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abortion Law Reform Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doctors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[julian mcgauran]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/27/victorian-abortion-law-overriding-the-conscience-of-doctors/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Victorian doctors who oppose abortion are legally obliged to be involved. The law doesn't just legalise abortion, it silences dissent, writes <b>Sinclair Davidson</b>. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/27/victorian-abortion-law-overriding-the-conscience-of-doctors/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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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>
		<comments>http://www.quadrant.org.au/magazine/issue/2009/10/labor-s-attack-on-conscience#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[People & Ideas]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[abortion law]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[australian doctors]]></category>
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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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.quadrant.org.au/magazine/issue/2009/10/labor-s-attack-on-conscience/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Tired doctors need a complex solution, not simplistic headlines</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/17/tired-doctors-need-a-complex-solution-not-simplistic-headlines/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/17/tired-doctors-need-a-complex-solution-not-simplistic-headlines/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doctors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fatigue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fatigue management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[nurses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[working hours]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/17/tired-doctors-need-a-complex-solution-not-simplistic-headlines/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The debate about long working hours and the vexed issue of extended shifts again has those concerned in a tailspin, writes <b>Professor Drew Dawson</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/17/tired-doctors-need-a-complex-solution-not-simplistic-headlines/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>The First Physician: when your patient is the president</title>
		<link>http://www.parade.com/health/2009/08/16-when-the-patient-is-the-president.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.parade.com/health/2009/08/16-when-the-patient-is-the-president.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[President of the United States]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=83252</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The leader of the free world is too important to be brought down by a case of the sniffles, so the US President -- and his inner circle -- are monitored around the clock by a team of doctors, nurses and assistants. Meet the people who have taken some very important lives in their hands.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Doctors criticise Rudd&#8217;s hospital tours</title>
		<link>http://www.smh.com.au/national/doctors-challenge-rudd-prescription-for-change-20090728-e06m.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.smh.com.au/national/doctors-challenge-rudd-prescription-for-change-20090728-e06m.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[doctors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=76517</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Doctors are too busy to play tour guides for Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's hospital tours and they're coming out in complaint at Rudd's lack of understanding of the depth of the hospital funding crisis. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.smh.com.au/national/doctors-challenge-rudd-prescription-for-change-20090728-e06m.html/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Time for MDs to get out of bed with drug companies</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/30/crackdown-on-doctorpharamceutical-romance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/30/crackdown-on-doctorpharamceutical-romance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Moynihan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[doctors]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=54390</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite their closeness, doctors and drug companies are becoming increasingly uneasy bedfellows, with calls from the very top of the global medical profession for a major clean-up.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Money: the most potent medical evidence there is</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/06/money-the-most-potent-medical-evidence-there-is/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/06/money-the-most-potent-medical-evidence-there-is/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine if much of the evidence that governed treatment decisions by doctors was based on a carefully selected release of studies designed and funded by the companies that are trying to bring their new and very expensive treatments to market.... writes <b>Dr Ian Haines</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/06/money-the-most-potent-medical-evidence-there-is/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Medicalising female s-xual disorder in the age of V-agra</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/15/medicalising-female-s-xual-disorder-in-the-age-of-v-agra/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/15/medicalising-female-s-xual-disorder-in-the-age-of-v-agra/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Pfizer celebrates a decade of Viagra, many companies are racing to develop drugs for what they regard as the potentially lucrative “female s-xual dysfunction” market, writes <b>Ray Moynihan</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/15/medicalising-female-s-xual-disorder-in-the-age-of-v-agra/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Why sick country people are on a highway to nowhere</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/10/why-sick-country-people-are-on-a-highway-to-nowhere/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/10/why-sick-country-people-are-on-a-highway-to-nowhere/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As petrol prices soar, eligible country patients who have to travel for specialist care are being reimbursed at a miserly rate of between 13 and 17 cents per kilometre, reports <b>Melissa Sweet</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/10/why-sick-country-people-are-on-a-highway-to-nowhere/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Should there be national registration for public health workers?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/04/should-there-be-national-registration-for-public-health-workers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/04/should-there-be-national-registration-for-public-health-workers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[COAG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doctors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Australia is moving towards national registration for core health and medical professionals, but there are no safeguards regarding public health officials, writes <b>Peter Sainsbury</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/04/should-there-be-national-registration-for-public-health-workers/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Beware the Gardasil hype: an industry insider</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/07/25/beware-the-gardasil-hype-an-industry-insider/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/07/25/beware-the-gardasil-hype-an-industry-insider/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cervical cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doctors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gardasil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the hype, there's a lot we don't yet know about Gardasil, writes former drug sales rep <b>Kimberly Elliott</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/07/25/beware-the-gardasil-hype-an-industry-insider/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Why exhausted NSW rural doctors have shut up shop</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/06/27/why-exhausted-nsw-rural-doctors-have-shut-up-shop/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/06/27/why-exhausted-nsw-rural-doctors-have-shut-up-shop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doctors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State & Territory]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday afternoon the two GPs at Dorrigo in northern NSW went on strike, closing their surgery. <b>Dr Horst Herb</b>, who has worked in Dorrigo for six years, explains how it happened.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/06/27/why-exhausted-nsw-rural-doctors-have-shut-up-shop/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Global PR firm outed as force behind blood clot awareness campaign</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/06/27/global-pr-firm-outed-as-force-behind-blood-clot-awareness-campaign/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/06/27/global-pr-firm-outed-as-force-behind-blood-clot-awareness-campaign/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doctors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The international PR firm Fleishman-Hillard, working with drug company money, is helping run a high-profile campaign to raise public awareness about blood clots in Australia, reports <b>Ray Moynihan</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/06/27/global-pr-firm-outed-as-force-behind-blood-clot-awareness-campaign/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Senior doctors “selling” drugs for $5000 a day</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/06/20/senior-doctors-selling-drugs-for-5000-a-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/06/20/senior-doctors-selling-drugs-for-5000-a-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doctors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A long time drug industry insider in the United States says leading specialists can earn up to $5000 a day, for “educating” their peers on behalf of Big Pharma, writes <b>Ray Moynihan</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/06/20/senior-doctors-selling-drugs-for-5000-a-day/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>US medical schools to end drug company gifts to doctors?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/09/us-medical-schools-to-end-drug-company-gifts-to-doctors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/09/us-medical-schools-to-end-drug-company-gifts-to-doctors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doctors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug company]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[international]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The rampant wining and dining of doctors may soon be a thing of the past, if the latest recommendations of a powerful medical group are to be implemented, writes Ray Moynihan. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/09/us-medical-schools-to-end-drug-company-gifts-to-doctors/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Bill Glasson: We need a new type of health professional</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/17/bill-glasson-we-need-a-new-type-of-health-professional/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/17/bill-glasson-we-need-a-new-type-of-health-professional/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2020 Summit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doctors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[physician assistants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Australia urgently needs to develop new ways of delivering health care, writes former AMA head <b>Dr Bill Glasson</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/17/bill-glasson-we-need-a-new-type-of-health-professional/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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