feeds from physicians.com.au http://physicians.com.au/rss/ en-au http://physicians.com.au/rss/ http://physicians.com.au/static/campfire/layouts/images/omg-logo-small.png http://www.physicians.com.au/articles/a-career-as-a-physicians-assistant/ Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST A career as a Physician’s Assistant An increasing popular option for a career in the various medical fields. Careers in the physicians industry are not limited only to fully fledged physicians with a surge in popularity for the role of physicians assistant. A physician’s assistant is a licensed professional who practices medicine under the supervision of a licensed physician and are primarily concerned with the treatment and prevention of ...

A career as a Physician’s Assistant An increasing popular option for a ca ...

http://www.physicians.com.au/news/2010/1/13/physicians-assistant-listed-as-2nd-in-top-50-jobs-money-magazine/ Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST news According to Money Magazine, being a Physician's Assistant is one of the best career choices a person can make after the job was deemed the second best job in the United States for 2009. The survey found that the job as a physician's assistant was "MD Lite" in that in involved all the satisfaction of patient care and treatment without the insurance responsibility that affects physicians. Physician Assistant statistics included a Median salary of $90,900 with a projected 10 year job gr ...

Role of Physicians Assistant rising in popularity

http://www.physicians.com.au/news/2009/9/19/new-proteins-may-lead-to-hiv-vaccine/ Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST news In what is being considered as one of the biggest breakthroughs in HIV research in 15 years, scientists have identified two highly potent antibodies that may be able to defend against every kind of virus. According to US scientists, the new vaccine could come from a HIV infected patient who did not show any of the symptoms, who when tested showed that two infection-fighting proteins, which upon examination were able to neutralised all major groups of HIV. Scientists are now attempting ...

Two identified proteins may have answer to HIV vaccine

http://www.physicians.com.au/news/2009/9/14/relenza-drip-saves-swine-flu-patient/ Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST news A swine flu case in the UK has experienced a strange turn of events after a physicians gamble with antiviral drug Relenza brought about an unexpectedly swift recovering. According to UK paper, The Lancet, a 22 year old cancer patient who was undergoing chemotherapy became infected by swine flu. She was affected severely due to the patient's immune system being already weak from the cancer treatment. The enterprising doctors administered both Tamiflu and a range of antibiotics wh ...

UK physicians chance treatment with Relenza proves successful

http://www.physicians.com.au/news/2009/9/7/proposed-health-plan-renews-focus-on-physicians-and-gps/ Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST news The Federal Government has released the draft of its primary health plan which has shown the Government's renewed focus on local healthcare such as general physicians, GPs and similar health care professionals including psychologists and midwives. The draft of Australia's National Primary Health Care Strategy was released by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and will complete the previous work of the National Health and Hospital Reform Commission. The draft proposal details plans for ...

Proposed new plan sees Physicians and local GP's rewarded for talking on chronic patients

http://www.physicians.com.au/news/2009/9/1/sporting-clothes-not-protecting-people-from-sun/ Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST news President of the Australasian College of Skin Cancer Medicine Dr Neil Chortley says that it's important that sporting groups take better care to ensure they are protected from the sun because clothes have weak SPF (Sun Protection Factor) protection.Dr Chortley said at an international skin cancer convention on the Gold Coast at the weekend that "it would be good to see a bit more compulsory use of sunscreen being pushed a little bit more in sports in general.""Exposing ...

President of the Australasian College of Skin Cancer Medicine Dr Neil Chortley says that it's important that sporting groups take better care to ensure they are protected from the sun because clothes have weak SPF (Sun Protection Factor) protection.

http://www.physicians.com.au/news/2009/6/15/turnbull-under-pressure-on-alcopops-tax/ Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST news PUBLIC health professionals today will seek to shore up Federal Opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull's support for the tax rise on alcopops following a campaign by distillers to persuade him to oppose it.After a year of opposing the tax increase, Mr Turnbull indicated last month he would reluctantly support the change in an attempt to focus attention on spending in this year's budget, in particular the means testing of the private health insurance rebate.But Mr Turnbull has faced some opposition t ...

PUBLIC health professionals today will seek to shore up Federal Opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull's support for the tax rise on alcopops following a campaign by distillers to persuade him to oppose it.

http://www.physicians.com.au/news/2007/11/28/hospitals-state-of-emergency/ Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST news EMERGENCY departments are failing to adequately treat patients because hospitals are forced to run at high levels of capacity, a meeting of the country's top emergency physicians was told yesterday.A snapshot of 70 Australian hospital emergency departments, taken at 10am on June 18, showed that access block was a big problem across the country.Access block occurs when an emergency patient cannot be admitted to a ward bed because there are none available.The backlog means other ...

EMERGENCY departments are failing to adequately treat patients because hospitals are forced to run at high levels of capacity, a meeting of the country's top emergency physicians was told yesterday.

http://www.physicians.com.au/news/2007/11/15/doctors-cry-for-help/ Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST news WOLLONGONG Hospital's most senior emergency physicians have joined a chorus of frustrated doctors demanding the NSW Government fix the state's disastrous emergency departments.At least three Wollongong Hospital emergency physicians are among 119 across the state who have signed an open letter to patients, describing emergency departments as desperately overcrowded and understaffed.The letter, initiated by Bankstown Hospital's Dr Sue Ieraci and emailed to doctors last week, also expr ...

WOLLONGONG Hospital's most senior emergency physicians have joined a chorus of frustrated doctors demanding the NSW Government fix the state's disastrous emergency departments.

http://www.physicians.com.au/news/2007/10/11/plan-for-speedy-patient-care-left-untested/ Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST news PHYSICIANS are unhappy that a NSW Health Acute Care Taskforce recommendation made two years ago to help relieve emergency departments has not been implemented despite a positive response by doctors.The proposal was for physicians to start treating patients while they were waiting for a ward bed - even if that meant attending to them in the corridors of emergency - to save time and relieve emergency doctors.Usually physicians wait until a patient is admitted to a ward.Yesterday ...

PHYSICIANS are unhappy that a NSW Health Acute Care Taskforce recommendation made two years ago to help relieve emergency departments has not been implemented despite a positive response by doctors.

http://www.physicians.com.au/news/2007/10/11/proposal-to-speed-up-patient-care-untested-after-two-years/ Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST news PHYSICIANS are unhappy a NSW Health Acute Care Taskforce recommendation made two years ago to help relieve emergency departments has not been implemented despite a positive response by doctors.The proposal was for physicians to start treating patients while they were waiting for a ward bed - even if that meant attending to them in the corridors of emergency.Yesterday a taskforce member, Christopher Clarke, a visiting thoracic physician at Concord Hospital, said he was disappointed t ...

PHYSICIANS are unhappy a NSW Health Acute Care Taskforce recommendation made two years ago to help relieve emergency departments has not been implemented despite a positive response by doctors.

http://www.physicians.com.au/news/2007/9/8/mater-staff-going-for-the-doctors/ Sat, 08 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EST news MEDICAL staff at the Calvary Mater have vowed to keep fighting for more general physicians after a failure to fully address an identified staffing crisis.At the behest of the hospital's medical staff council, a review of the hospital's department of general medicine was commissioned by Hunter New England Health (HNEH) last year and completed in February.It found an "urgent need" to employ 3.3 more full-time equivalent (FTE) senior medical practitioners to allow for "safe and sustain ...

MEDICAL staff at the Calvary Mater have vowed to keep fighting for more general physicians after a failure to fully address an identified staffing crisis.

http://www.physicians.com.au/news/2007/9/1/extra-staff-fail-to-meet-maters-identified-need/ Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EST news HUNTER New England Health has failed to fully address a staffing crisis at the Calvary Mater Newcastle Hospital, where an "urgent need" for an extra 3.3 full-time equivalent senior physicians has been identified.In a press release issued late yesterday NSW Health Minister Reba Meagher endorsed plans by Hunter New England Health chief executive Dr Nigel Lyons to fund the recruitment of 1.9 full-time equivalent staff.A roster obtained by The Herald in July revealed staff shortages wer ...

HUNTER New England Health has failed to fully address a staffing crisis at the Calvary Mater Newcastle Hospital, where an "urgent need" for an extra 3.3 full-time equivalent senior physicians has been identified.

http://www.physicians.com.au/news/2007/8/24/federal-govt-not-willing-to-bail-out-shellharbour-yet/ Fri, 24 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EST news THE Federal Government has refused to come to the aid of Shellharbour Hospital, which was recently downgraded by the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.The college has withdrawn the hospital's doctor training accreditation, due to compromised patient safety, excessive workloads and limited trainee supervision. But a spokeswoman for Health Minister Tony Abbott said yesterday the Federal Government would not help Shellharbour at this stage."We are not considering it at the ...

THE Federal Government has refused to come to the aid of Shellharbour Hospital, which was recently downgraded by the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.

http://www.physicians.com.au/news/2007/8/23/overstretched-hospital-barred-from-training/ Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EST news THE Royal Australasian College of Physicians has banned Shellharbour Hospital from training junior doctors after it found they were struggling under a heavy workload with little or no supervision, which put patients at risk. It is the first time a NSW hospital has had its accreditation for basic physician training withdrawn. The leaked college report said Shellharbour had "major weaknesses" as a training site. It found trainees carried out clinical tasks beyond their experience and ...

THE Royal Australasian College of Physicians has banned Shellharbour Hospital from training junior doctors after it found they were struggling under a heavy workload with little or no supervision, which put patients at risk.

http://www.physicians.com.au/news/2007/7/7/long-history-of-the-doctors-of-doom/ Sat, 07 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EST news There is nothing new about physicians taking part in acts of barbarism, writes Robert Kaplan.DOCTORS have frequently been accomplices in politically motivated repression, brutality and genocide, conducting inhumane experiments on victims, participating in torture and directing programs to exterminate the enemy. For no reason other than they had the power to do it at the time, they have beaten, tortured and killed victims.Political medical murderers reverse the process of patients se ...

There is nothing new about physicians taking part in acts of barbarism, writes Robert Kaplan.

http://www.physicians.com.au/news/2007/6/23/all-eyes-on-hunter-initiative/ Sat, 23 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EST news A HUNTER training initiative to help address a shortage of general physicians is being watched with interest by leading health professionals in Australia and New Zealand.Initial funding was provided by Hunter New England Health, and the State Government has contributed $1.89 million over the next four years for four training places.Program director John Attia said it was hoped the Federal Government would fund at least four more training places."There's a long history of people ...

A HUNTER training initiative to help address a shortage of general physicians is being watched with interest by leading health professionals in Australia and New Zealand.

http://www.physicians.com.au/news/2007/6/23/emergency-measure/ Sat, 23 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EST news A HUNTER initiative will address a critical shortage of general physicians across NSW and Australia that is predicted to get worse.The nation's ageing population is increasing the demand for general physicians, specialists who are required to treat complex, multi-system and chronic problems.John Attia , academic director of the Department of General Medicine at John Hunter Hospital, said a number of factors had created the shortage, but there was growing recognition of the need to a ...

A HUNTER initiative will address a critical shortage of general physicians across NSW and Australia that is predicted to get worse.

http://www.physicians.com.au/news/2007/5/13/unkindest-cut-debate-revived-by-hiv-trials/ Sun, 13 May 2007 00:00:00 EST news THE Royal Australasian College of Physicians is reviewing its stance against circumcision following new research that shows the procedure can cut the risk of HIV infection.The college's director of policy and communications, Gary Disher, said a review team was looking at all the recent research on circumcision and a revised policy statement was due later this year. "I'm hopeful that both sides of the spectrum of this debate will be at least considered within this policy," Mr Disher ...

THE Royal Australasian College of Physicians is reviewing its stance against circumcision following new research that shows the procedure can cut the risk of HIV infection.

http://www.physicians.com.au/news/2006/9/27/shortage-of-doctors-to-train-interns/ Wed, 27 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EST news THE state's public hospital system is gaining 617 new medical graduates next year, but doctors say one key ingredient is missing: enough senior physicians to train and supervise the juniors.In some specialties, such as emergency medicine and intensive care, there are vacancy rates of between 30 per cent and 60 per cent in training programs - vacancies for the very doctors needed to supervise the new interns.Many experts trace the workforce shortages back to a Federal Government deci ...

THE state's public hospital system is gaining 617 new medical graduates next year, but doctors say one key ingredient is missing: enough senior physicians to train and supervise the juniors.