The major impediment to realising the ideal of good general practice is that few patients understand it. Alex Proimos/Flickr

What you should expect from your GP

Australia spent $16 billion on GP-related health care in 2012-13. Given that our public health system means each of us is paying for health care through our taxes, what should we expect from doctors?
Doctors have far more important things to do than act as clerical cogs in a pseudo-system pretending to account for the absence of people from their work. Truthout.org

Craig Thomson saga shows doctors’ certificates are a sick joke

Labor MP Craig Thomson is the latest Australian worker to be stung by the outdated culture of medical certificates. Thomson fell ill last week with abdominal pain and was issued a medical certificate that…

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