Closing legal loopholes. Illustration: Matt Golding. Read letters to the editor here:
As a registered nurse, I worked in a general practice for 10 years. I witnessed numerous breaches of medical regulations regarding prescribing and competency. Following a major incident, restrictions were placed on one GP and these were blatantly ignored. Ego and a sense of self-entitlement, along with bullying of staff, allowed this person to continually ignore the restrictions.
Private hospitals should not be allowed to “cherry pick” the easy stuff and fob off their patients after hours. Maybe the “cosmetic cowboys” and underperforming surgeons would find it harder to operate if private hospitals had to fund the true cost of their procedures.There is no doubt that the new clinical trial testing different oxygen levels on preterm babies is very worthwhile.
Also, according to figures from the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, the number of young doctors choosing to specialise in general practice has fallen to its lowest in more than five years .I know someone with schizophrenia. Like many people with her condition she chain smokes to help manage her symptoms. She cannot go more than an hour or so without lighting up. Of course it is bad for her, but at the age of nearly 70 she is hardly likely to stop.
I tried unsuccessfully to use the passes over six months ago to book overseas flights. Despite many unanswered emails and hours on the phone, the best Qantas staff can tell me is that my money is “floating” or in “limbo” and that they will get back to me. They don’t.
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