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As our population ages, so too do our doctors. But ageing physicians should still play an active and leading role in our health care workforce, writes Steve Robson.
Amid unprecedented medical workforce pressures, many doctors are rethinking their futures. Yet new WHS laws provide the tools to protect our wellbeing and our careers — if we use them. This piece urges every doctor to lead by example: know the law, speak up about poor working conditions and other abuses safely, and advocate for better health system resourcing — together.
Health care practitioners are a key voice in championing the rights of unaccompanied children to survive, to receive health care, and to experience wellbeing, writes Associate Professor Catherine Robinson.
Australia’s current and future doctors must be educated and equipped to provide healthcare in the face of the escalating climate crisis, the health impacts of which have been starkly outlined in the recently released National Climate Risk Assessment.
Around one in eight Australian women lives with PCOS. Clearer diagnosis and multidisciplinary care are key to supporting their reproductive, metabolic and psychological health across the lifespan.
The beauty of the Amazon basin will greet world leaders as they arrive in Belém, Brazil, for the 30th UN Climate Change Conference beginning on Monday.
Access to healthcare in Australia isn’t equal for everyone. Young adults, people with chronic diseases, people from lower socio-economic areas and people without private health insurance report significant challenges in being able to access the care they need.
Over the last 30 years, there have been significant advances in our understanding of ‘complex trauma’ — repeated ongoing and often extreme interpersonal violence, abuse and neglect, occurring at any life stage or over multiple stages. People experiencing the impacts of complex trauma benefit from medical practice which is trauma-informed.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is moving rapidly from promise to practice in Australian health care. While the potential of AI in medicine has been recognised for a number of years now, technologies such as scribes have now become ubiquitous. This transformation into AI-augmented practice extends well beyond medicine, with nursing care and allied health applications emerging on the near horizon too.
