Australia urgently needs to develop new ways of delivering health care, writes former AMA head Dr Bill Glasson.
Doctors
Drug industry reveals its daily orgy of wining and dining
The “education” of doctors is a $60 million a year dining experience and drug companies are picking up the tab. Ray Moynihan reports.
How to disentangle doctors and drug companies
Apart from the benefactors and beneficiaries, few will anymore try and defend the way drug companies wine and dine our doctors. Around the globe the public debate is finally moving away from what’s wrong with the duchessing of doctors, to what on earth we can do about it.
“Volunteer” doctors on the federal payroll
It’s been widely reported, in the general and medical media, that around 600 doctors have volunteered to take part in the Federal Government’s initiative in the NT. This doesn’t mean, however, that the doctors will be working for free.
Evidence is in: Kevin Andrews must be sacrificed
It is a difficult task to ensure that protecting freedoms doesn’t destroy those same freedoms. Which is what has made the case of Mohamed Haneef such a dangerous failure for John Howard – the actions taken and the words spoken have given the impression that the Coalition Government is incapable of getting the balance right, argues Richard Farmer.
Drugs, cycling, and SBS: the final word
Cycling has become a blood sport, 21st century style, and the effect is dire: those who love the sport enough to withstand its tortures for a fleeting shot at its glories are those killing it from within, virus-like.
Doctors and terror: an established pathology
With every doctor in the west named Patel or Habib now facing the prospect that their patients will be staring carefully at their white coats, checking for the outlines of a bomb-jacket, much bewilderment has been expressed at the juxtaposition of the healing profession and the delivery of death.
A pipe dream solution to doctor-drug company nosh-ups
Former pharamaceutical industry employee Peter Wildblood outlines how to cirucmvent the often too-cosy relationships of doctors and drug companies.
Time to name names at doctor-drug company nosh-ups
Drug companies will now have to disclose the details of all their wining and dining of doctors, but we still won’t know the names of the doctors who attend these drug company events.
