Why patients with disabilities and mental distress are being turned away
It’s no secret COVID-19 is having a drastic impact on people’s wellbeing and has worsened an already rising trend in mental health problems. The Australian…
Sophie Attwood
Sophie is a journalist at Australian Doctor.
AHPRA is not ‘silencing doctors’ – there’s a difference between informed disagreement and denigration
Medical social media has been abuzz with outrage over the alleged ‘silencing’ of doctors by AHPRA. Much of this has been triggered by the specific…
App Review: Ask Annie how to improve dementia care
It aims to help home and community support workers better understand people living with dementia.
Medical Must-See: Is it Rapunzel syndrome? There’s no hairy tail ending
Doctors had to untangle an unusual history, including an absence of trichotillomania.
Doctors don’t know everything – sometimes we need help
Ages ago, following an election, I had a call from a staffer in the new Minister for Health’s office. He was breathless with excitement. “I’m…
Monkeypox in Australia – what we’ve learnt so far
On 23 July, the WHO’s Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (PhD), took the unprecedented step and declared the monkeypox outbreak a “public health emergency of…
Podcast: The stories of how modern medicine came to be
From the wonderfully weird and morbid to the historical figures who paved the way.
Australia ranks second in the world for coronavirus cases – so where did we go wrong?
Australia’s elimination strategy during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic was one of the most effective in the world. Through a combination of…
What my European holiday taught me about ‘living with COVID-19’
Travelling overseas for the first time since borders reopened allows an appraisal of how the English, Spanish and Portuguese are ‘living with COVID-19’. Each country…
Medical Must-See: There was something unusual inside this umbilical cord
A string of congenital anomalies is associated with the finding.
