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August 7, 2024

How old’s too old to be a doctor? Why GPs and surgeons over 70 may need a health check to practise

Christopher Rudge, University of Sydney

Under new proposals, doctors over 70 may need to be declared fit to practice or have regular health checks. But not everyone’s happy.

That’s right chaps: top rated on rice pudding and chicken kiev, again. Lynne Cameron/PA Archive/Press Association Images

November 29, 2013

NHS TripAdvisor be aware: if you build it, they don’t always come

Lisa Trigg, London School of Economics and Political Science

Tim Kelsey, the NHS’s Director for Patients and Information, has announced that the service is to launch a TripAdvisor-style patient feedback site, following a pilot in London and the north-east. In the…

Anaesthetist James Latham Peters transmitted the virus to his patients after he injected himself with the drug fentanyl. Image from shutterstock.com

February 27, 2013

How was a drug‑addicted doctor with hep C able to infect his patients?

Moira Sim, Edith Cowan University and Eric Khong, Edith Cowan University

Fifty-five women contracted hepatitis C after having abortions in Melbourne between 2008 and 2009. James Latham Peters, an anaesthetist with a drug dependence, has been prosecuted in Victoria for infecting…

October 15, 2012

More complaints against international medical graduates

The University of Melbourne

Researchers who analysed more than 5,000 complaints resolved by the medical board have found that international medical graduates…

July 11, 2011

One per cent of doctors receive a fifth of total complaints

Medical Journal of Australia

A small number of private practice doctors in Victoria are responsible for nearly a fifth of complaints, according to research…

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