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  • Issue 35 / 22 September 2014
    Aniello Iannuzzi: Flying blind

    IF you haven’t heard of FIFO, rest assured it is not the name of latest rap star but something more commonplace — fly-in fly-out workers.FIFO’s sociocultural and economic impacts have been much discussed, particularly with respect to mining communities. There are even websites and…


  • Issue 31 / 25 August 2014
    Aniello Iannuzzi: College expansion

    THE Royal Australian College of General Practitioners has been active in the copayment debate, not least with its #CoPayNoWay campaign.The Senate inquiry into out-of-pocket medical expenses put the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) under the spotlight, particularly when the RACS suggested…


  • Issue 28 / 4 August 2014
    Aniello Iannuzzi: Job insecurity

    HEALTH workforce policy, health funding policy and university education policy are fascinating ingredients in a 2014 political melting pot. Yet the resultant amalgam remains a mystery.In the 2009‒10 federal Budget, the Labor government removed the cap on funded university places (except in medicine)…


  • Issue 22 / 23 June 2014
    Aniello Iannuzzi: Copay for specialists

    AS is typical at any gathering of doctors since the federal Budget, during lunch with a staff specialist friend we discussed the patient copayment.He mentioned that is was a good thing to try to curb the Medicare cost blow-out in general practice. However, my friend became somewhat dyspeptic when I…


  • Issue 18 / 26 May 2014
    Aniello Iannuzzi: Take a $7 history

    CHILL out Chicken Littles — that’s my message to the public, welfare groups, politicians and doctors with respect to the $7 copayment for a GP consultation announced in the federal Budget.I have not witnessed such an avalanche of expertise and prophesy since the soothsayers of the Y2K bug,…


  • Issue 14 / 28 April 2014
    Aniello Iannuzzi: Heavy lifting

    UNTIL that moment, it felt like any other day — morning walk, breakfast, shower and off to do a ward round.Then I picked up the bedside chart of Mr X in Room 3. “Hmm”, I thought. “This feels a little heavier than usual.”I opened the folder to be confronted by an 11-page…


  • Issue 10 / 24 March 2014
    Aniello Iannuzzi: Aftercare show time

    AROUND this time of year many NSW country towns hold their annual shows, with all sorts of entry tickets available, such as single entry or a day pass.At our local show one poor bloke was protesting at the gate, saying he had paid for a ticket but had been called away. The gatekeeper wanted him to pay…


  • Issue 6 / 24 February 2014
    Aniello Iannuzzi: Lessons from abroad

    THE media often describes summer as the silly season — there is usually not much worth reporting.I escaped most of the silly season by going on a trip to Europe with my family, but couldn’t help contrasting their medical systems and actions to the way we do things here in Aussie medical…