In the latest Health Wrap, Dr Lesley Russell takes a deep dive into whether the Federal Government is meeting its promise to provide more affordable medicines, seeking to get behind the payw... Read more
(This article was updated on 14 November – see additions at end). Introduction by Croakey: Leaders in Indigenous health from Australia and New Zealand have called on the Royal Australi... Read more
The recent deaths of four junior doctors are an urgent reminder that medicine needs to confront “the dark side” of its institutional culture, says Dr Kimberley Ivory, Senior Lecturer, Popula... Read more
If you haven’t already had the chance to read this lecture on the changing nature of journalism, delivered last month by Katharine Viner, deputy editor of the Guardian and editor-in-chief of... Read more
In the latest update of the health and medical articles at The Conversation… Reema Rattan and Fron Jackson-Webb write: Here are some the highlights from The Conversation’s health and m... Read more
A writer’s lot can be rather frustrating when people read something quite different into a piece of writing than what the writer intended. Generally I assume it means I haven’t express... Read more
For those with an interest in the implications of social media for public health and health care, here are some recent links (they are in two parts – the first is related to medicine a... Read more
Has fee-for-service medicine and healthcare more broadly passed its use by date? “Yes and no” is the suggestion of this brief report from The Canadian Health Services Research Fo... Read more
Professor Kerry Goulston, Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the University of Sydney, has sent in the following review of two books likely to interest Croakey readers. He writes: “Ther... Read more
