Getting a roomful of GPs from around the world to singalong to Hey Jude which just happens to coincide with Sir Paul’s current Australian tour! #WONCA2023 #Woncasydney #beatles

Lovely video presentation by the @RACGP at #wonca2023 about what we’ve done this past year as a College. Is the video available for viewing on other platforms?

Aaaaaand Victoria joins the party: sro.vic.gov.au/legislation/r… Stealthily.

Hi @PMalinauskasMP when you said on @abcnews 7.30 that people are rocking up sicker to EDs, have you stopped to consider that GPs have been holding back the floodgates by looking after patients well, and keeping them out of hospital until they cant’t? @RACGP @AMAGenPractice

Read the thread. This one tweet in the middle is spot on. The patient-doctor encounter is relational, not transactional.

It’s disingenuous that the Australian government expects private businesses to subsidise the cost of an essential service by over 50%. Many patients do not realise that when they are bulk billed, the government does not reimburse the entire private fee that their GP charges.

This thread 🧵 on the terminology around suicide is ✅ and so relevant. I’ve been consciously avoiding saying or writing “committed suicide” for a while now, preferring “completed suicide” or “suicided” in its place. Still searching for the least emotive way of stating the fact.

#fauxlowvaluecare #teamGP #justaGP Regular pt walks in without appt. Seen stat. Identified serious but stable acute GI bleed. Phone call to surgeon to organise urgent consult on the same day. Avoided unnecessary ED visit. Problem sorted in 24 hrs. BB item 36 for a $76 fee.

This appears to be a Medicare witch hunt to reduce one compassionate GP’s desire to help patients by bulk billing surgical procedures. Medicare’s recommendation? Bill privately or cease providing the service. What?? Andre deserves an AO nomination, not a sanction by Medicare.