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The environmental impacts of AI cannot be ignored when it comes to human health.

AI offers significant opportunities in healthcare, but it also raises ethical questions. Learn what Australian doctors need to know about patient safety, consent, bias and responsible AI use.

Work–life balance in medicine isn’t just a personal challenge — it’s often shaped by the system itself. From long hours to training demands, doctors describe a profession where balance can be structurally hard to achieve.

For many doctors, retirement isn’t a simple question of age. From mounting workload and burnout to financial readiness and life beyond medicine, the decision to step away from clinical practice is often gradual — and deeply personal.

Long shifts, overnight calls and unpaid overtime are often treated as a rite of passage for junior doctors. How are they to find work life balance and avoid burnout?

Understanding whether a tool is regulated as an AI medical device can help doctors make more informed decisions about which tools are appropriate to use in their clinical practice. 

Around one in 20 Australian doctors will be named in a medical negligence claim. This guide covers what GPs need to know: duty of care, informed consent, documentation, and what to do when things go wrong.

Professional boundaries protect patients and doctors alike. But knowing where the line is — and recognising when it's at risk of blurring — is often harder in practice than in principle

In recent years, reported cases of delusions, psychosis, and even suicide related to AI chatbot use, has led to concerns about the risk that some patients may have to develop AI psychosis.