From offering a tired surgeon a cup of tea after a tough night in theatre, to a simple thankyou or smile, doctors are being urged to treat each other with more kindness, especially at handover time.

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

Late-career surgeons perform a large proportion of cataract operations, and they do it with an overall low rate of adverse events, a Canadian study suggests.

In recent years, researchers have

The organisation responsible for setting ethical standards for doctors around the world has again been plunged into scandal, after its incoming president admitted to reading a plagiarised speech at

The federal Minister for Health, Greg Hunt, says he will release details of his plan to force specialists to disclose their fees in the coming months as part of his pledge to reduce 'bill shock' for

The federal Minister for Health, Greg Hunt, says he will release details of his plan to force specialists to disclose their fees in the coming months as part of his pledge to reduce 'bill shock' for

The specialist sector is surging, with growth now sitting at five times that of GPs, according to a report that sets out the current state of the health sector in Australia.

While total expenditure

A surgeon has been cleared of acting improperly after he was accused of kicking an eight-year-old boy on the bottom when the child was slow to leave his consulting rooms.

The Lismore ENT specialist,

A proposed website that compares doctors' fees and services is impractical and unhelpful, the AMA says.

While advocates of the MySchool-style site see it as an easy way to tackle out-of-pocket

Generalists deal better with diagnostic uncertainty than specialists, with research suggesting that having clinical expertise restricted to single organs may be a limitation on formulating