Glenda is a 63-year-old regular patient who presents with a sore throat.

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This story has been updated. The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists would like to note that the decision support app cited in the MBS Review Taskforce report - an app called

It was American surgeon and author Richard Selzer who, in Letters to a Young Doctor, famously wrote: “You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person’s spirit from

An MBS Review plan to stamp out unnecessary pathology requests by tightening Medicare items and imposing strict time limits on testing carries “significant risks”, the RACGP warns.

RACGP president Dr

Matthew, a seven-year-old boy and a regular patient of the practice, presents with another upper respiratory tract infection.

It is the fourth episode in the past five weeks.

He is up-to-date with

Pathologists are being “taken for granted” by other doctors and the specialty is struggling to attract junior doctors, the head of the pathology college warns.

Royal College of Pathologists of

Serial measurements of anti-citrullinated peptide antibody (ACPA) are unnecessary in seronegative patients diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis as conversion is uncommon, an Australian study suggests.

Urologists top the league for physicians reporting burn-out, at least in the USA, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

More than 3,500 US physicians were surveyed

Rakesh is a 37-year old male who recently moved to Australia from India. Over the past six months, he has had increasing difficulty opening his mouth and protruding his tongue.

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Health department officials are investigating suspect rent deals between hundreds of GP practices and pathology collection centres, amid concerns about inflated rents and unusual Medicare billing