A standardized framework for regulating the safety and efficacy of AI in healthcare has yet to be established.
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New laws will give ministers control of previously independent regulatory bodies in education and health, potentially undermining their public advocacy roles.
Uncertainty is common in medicine, and AI isn’t very good at navigating it.
Seeking a second opinion is a patient’s right. Knowing how empowering another perspective can be may make it less awkward to ask for one.
Prejudice and professional gate-keeping before and during WWII meant New Zealand denied itself an opportunity to save lives and boost its depleted health system.
Feeling heard and understood by a medical provider is a crucial part of healthcare for patients.
Health inequality is not only about who reaches a health facility. It is also about what happens once patients are inside the consultation room.
One Nation is proposing to force doctors to do a regional stint before they can work in the city. But would that work in practice?
Your phone was built to make you look good, not to support diagnosis, yet its images are now influencing your medical care.
Like other high-income countries, Australia and New Zealand are leaning on GPs to solve increasingly complex health needs – without the necessary investment.
AI chatbots are outperforming doctors in empathy ratings. But the real story isn’t about robot superiority, it’s about how we’ve broken healthcare.
Health Minister Simeon Brown claimed striking doctors are ‘crossing an ethical line’. But disruption can be ethical when public welfare is at stake.
Homelessness is solvable through affordable and supportive housing. Hospitals should be part of the solution.
Israeli medical staff who treated Palestinian captives in the wake of the October 7 attacks say they are haunted by their experiences.
An estimated 8% of US doctors had joined a union in 2024, up from 5.7% a decade earlier.
How do you know when it’s time to find a new GP? Here’s what to consider if you have that niggling feeling.
Australia is awash with policies, but not the kind that would fix the workforce crisis. Here’s what would work instead.
Health-care professionals aren’t pacifists refusing conscription into the military. They freely choose health-care careers – that comes with obligations.
How practitioners listen and communicate helps shape patient experiences in healthcare systems.
Privacy and bias concerns and integration challenges are brakes on the pace of health care systems adopting the technology.
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Professor, Department of Health Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Associate professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto; York University, Canada; University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, Family Medicine, Queen's University, Ontario
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Research Fellow, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Professor in Pharmaceutical Policy, School of Pharmacy and Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney
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Professor of Nursing, University of Hull
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Senior Research and Teaching Fellow, School of Health, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Professor of Health Law and Bioethics, Case Western Reserve University
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Professor of Organisational Ethnography, Cambridge Judge Business School
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Brett Montgomery is a Friend of The Conversation.
Senior Lecturer in General Practice, The University of Western Australia
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Professor and Executive Dean of School, Medical and Health Sciences, Edith Cowan University
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Clinical Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia
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Honorary Senior Fellow in Health Service Research, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Health Economics and Director, Centre for Health Economics, Monash Business School, Monash University