The AMA, says its president Dr Andrew Pesce, should be seen as the “Chief Health Policy advisor to all political parties”. That’s according to the latest issue of Australian Medicine,... Read more
Regular readers may remember there was some vigorous discussion at Croakey earlier this year after a SA study comparing the outcomes for homebirths and hospital births generated misleading h... Read more
KAPOW! WHAM! BAM! That, dear reader, is the comic book image that springs to mind* while observing the recent collision of two of the most powerful lobby groups in the health and medical ind... Read more
In 1999, when I was researching a profile of Dr Martin Van Der Weyden, the editor of the Medical Journal of Australia, his friends and colleagues used descriptions like: an unusual character... Read more
The World Health Organization is moving towards taking some action on the flow of health professionals from poor to rich countries. It is likely that Australia is one of its targets, argues... Read more
Further to the posts below on the homebirth study, the AMA has sought right of reply. Dr Andrew Pesce, for those who haven’t been following the story thus far, is the president of the... Read more
Even if you’ve had only half an ear or eye on the media in recent days, you would have heard of a new study, published in the current edition of the Medical Journal of Australia showin... Read more
Has the AMA hijacked the Federal Government’s plans for maternity services reform? Yes – and it will be to the detriment of the public, especially those in rural, remote and othe... Read more
Laugh. Maybe it’s just a bad case of Mondayitis, but the coverage of today’s COAG deliberations on health reform have had that effect. Here in The Australian, we have the Austral... Read more
The federal AMA has not been known, until recently perhaps, for its deep and principled interest in health reform. You could even say that the former president Dr Rosanna Capolingua made qui... Read more
