Dr Linda Calabresi is medical editor of Australian Doctor and has been a practising GP for over 20 years. A graduate from The University of Sydney, she started in medical publishing back in the 90s as medical news editor with Australian Doctor. After working on a range of publications, including The Australian, Australian Family Physician, 6minutes and a number of books, she returned to AusDoc in 2008 where she coordinates clinical content for the education program.
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Another year, another federal budget. Every year it seems the usual suspects stand up and demand to be counted. This year, however, one group appears to have shouted louder than usual and, more…
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It's hard to believe a year has passed since we watched, with horrified awe, those images of that wall of water engulfing the Japanese coast.
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At last the silent majority are speaking up. At last education authorities, who should know better, are being held to account. It's about time, isn't it?
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Happy new year. Welcome back, hopefully refreshed after some sort of break over the Christmas period. If we look to this coming year it would seem we have some interesting challenges to face in…
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I’d like to think that as I have got older I have generally become more tolerant; developed more of a live and let live approach to life. I get less irate when people push in on the road, or if they…
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"People often think that, as a doctor, somewhere along the line I have solemnly taken the Hippocratic oath. They are more than a little disconcerted to find I can't, and never have, recited it."
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"It seems to be a perennial challenge for governments. Those with the responsibility of dishing out the funds know they have to invest in primary care."
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"We were here in our fourth-floor offices at Australian Doctor. Those people sitting closest to the windows became aware that an accident had happened on the street below."
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IT is ironic, really. As GPs, it would seem we are jumping through more and more hoops in the interests of accountability. We have to prove we’ve done the requisite CPD, the requisite CPR…
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Here we are at the beginning of another year. Having once again enjoyed the season of excess, we face the prospect of 2011 hopefully with renewed energy and sense of purpose.