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Mashup Score: 0Is sex bias the reason fewer women get pacemakers? - 2 year(s) ago
Implantable electronic devices are consistently underused in women with heart disease compared with men, an Australian cohort study shows. Sydney cardiologists have warned that eligible women are nearly 60% less likely to receive cardiac devices than male patients — and that this is likely because of systemic sex bias. A major study across NSW hospitals finds big disparities between treatment…
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Mashup Score: 3Three in four GPs losing love for the job: AusDoc survey - 2 year(s) ago
Three-quarters of GPs are losing enthusiasm for their chosen vocation because of their experiences dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, an Australian Doctor survey suggests. Of almost 500 GPs and GP registrars who responded to the poll, 75% said the pandemic had sapped their love for general practice, with only 5% saying it had improved their enthusiasm for the role. Many of the 500 respondents…
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RT @imaanjoshi: “Responders also revealed multiple stories of patients lying about respiratory symptoms.” https://t.co/LYbc4WUgTw
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Mashup Score: 9We are dying from COVID-19, not living with it - 2 year(s) ago
The silence is deafening. Although 2022 has been by far the worst year for Australia, when it comes to COVID-19 in terms of public discourse, it’s as if the virus doesn’t exist. Australia currently has the highest known COVID-19 case rate in the world, at 1631 cases per million people a day.1 Our mortality rate from the virus also remains stubbornly high, with an average of 38 deaths a day, or…
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We are dying from COVID-19, not living with it -*brilliant* work by Dr Jim Newcombe #auspol #Election2022 #WhereisCOVID https://t.co/2xNbZsSeyw https://t.co/aVWNcmwGzS
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Mashup Score: 0Has mandatory COVID-19 vaccination warped medical ethics? - 2 year(s) ago
Medical ethics is rooted in patients providing informed consent to treatment. Obviously, there are cases, such as with severe mental illness, when capacity is impaired and health is seriously threatened; but compulsion is justified because the interventions are administered in the individual’s best interest. But has the pandemic, and specifically vaccines mandates, shifted the ethical…
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Has mandatory COVID-19 vaccination warped medical ethics? https://t.co/o2K9VghKRr via @australiandr
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Mashup Score: 0
During an age of medical wonders, there has always been concern among doctors that patients and families don’t always understand their limitations given the harsh truths of real life and death. Back in October 2019, doctors at Melbourne’s Northern Hospital admitted a 99-year-old man with community-acquired pneumonia and initiated antibiotics. He had a long list of comorbidities ranging from…
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“Clinicians decide whether or not treatment is futile on a case-by-case basis.” https://t.co/II4ljxxBWb
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Mashup Score: 0From COVID-19 control to chaos — What now for Australia? - 2 year(s) ago
Australia has swung from one extreme in pandemic control to the other — having great control of COVID-19, to now having the world’s highest rise in daily cases. Across the country (except for Western Australia), COVID-19 cases are exploding.
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From COVID-19 control to chaos - What now for Australia? @Globalbiosec in Australian Doctor #AusDoc: https://t.co/gsZNQCFgb9
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The family of a man in ICU with sepsis following COVID-19 infection has failed in a legal bid to force his doctors to administer mega-doses of vitamin C, vitamin D and zinc. The patient’s daughter argued they should use “any possible regime that may ultimately prove beneficial”, saying her father was likely to die within days. The NSW Supreme Court was told there were “some studies”…
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Judge rejects attempt to force doctors to administer vitamins to man with sepsis | Australian Doctor https://t.co/BoeLTPf8Iy
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Mashup Score: 1Court rejects legal challenge to mandatory vaccination - 3 year(s) ago
A judge has dismissed legal challenges to health orders mandating COVID-19 vaccinations for workers, saying they are no different to demands for pre-employment medical checks. The cases, heard in the NSW Supreme Court, involved 10 plaintiffs, who included three aged care workers and a pathology worker. They alleged their employment had been undermined by the state’s demand that they should…
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AUS Court rejects legal challenge to mandatory vaccination: A right to bodily integrity is not violated because an individual agrees to be vaccinated to avoid a prohibition on movement, @NSWSupCt judge declares https://t.co/oUVhbKpSEW via @australiandr @doritmi @ABatemanHouse
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Mashup Score: 0Will GPs prescribe the new 'COVID-19 pill’? - 3 year(s) ago
Australia is buying 300,000 courses of a new antiviral pill to treat COVID-19 that could become the first early-stage treatment option for GPs. The drug, molnupiravir, is still under TGA review and not expected to arrive in Australia — if it is approved — until next year. But manufacturer MSD claims molnupiravir reduces the risk of hospitalisation or death by 50% in patients with comorbidities,…
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Dr @petermbenglish , past chair of @TheBMA PHM Cttee, was critical of “breathless enthusiasm” abt Molnupiravir, noting study findings had yet 2b peer reviewed. Pts who wud benefit from Rx wud need 2b narrowed down b4 it was widely used https://t.co/Nmh90XhfK2 via @australiandr
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Mashup Score: 0Why are some chiros still anti-vaxxers? - 3 year(s) ago
While the community focuses on COVID-19 vaccination rates, a news story about a disciplinary hearing that was initiated some years ago has emerged at a pertinent time. The hearing related to Simon Floreani, a chiropractor who back in 2016 was on YouTube railing against what he described as Australia’s ‘Nazi vaccination regime’ and complaining that people were being forced to secretly screen…
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Why are some chiros still anti-vaxxers? https://t.co/BjsdTakOyU via @SueIeraci
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Is sex bias the reason fewer women get pacemakers? https://t.co/gPy8Fvg2j5 via @kemal_atlay