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Medical Shortage in QLD Bush
An interesting editorial outlining the ongoing need for Locum Doctors in the QLD Bush. Please consider your availabilities for roles in the QLD Bush. We supply to many of these hospitals, and they are chronically short of good quality doctors – whether they be locums or full time employees. http://www.couriermail.com.au/ipad/medical-crisis-hits-bush-health/story-fn6ck51p-1226139921441
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Steve Jobs: How to live before you die
http://www.ted.com/talks/steve_jobs_how_to_live_before_you_die.html
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Want $20,000? Send your friend to Bourke
10th Oct 2011 Byron Kaye all articles by this author IT MAY be Australia’s largest bounty for a GP – and it’s already gone global. Since putting out word of a $20,000 reward for anyone who can lure a GP-obstetrician to Bourke, NSW, Ochre Health Group chair Dr Ross Lamplugh says he has had calls ...
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From the Trading Desk
Update by Charles Thomasson – Wilson HTM Investment Adviser For some time we have been talking about the fragility of the recovery in the US and its vulnerability to shocks. Unfortunately those shocks have occurred and it now appears growth in the US will be weak at best and potentially negative. The list of negatives ...
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GP designs memory aid for smartphones
courtesy of www.medicalobserver.com.au MODERN medicos are increasingly turning to smartphone applications to help with patient care, but NSW GP Dr Mike Birrell has taken that one step further by designing his own. A GP for 30 years, Dr Birrell has worked extensively in aged care and used some extra time while he was laid up ...
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Flexible training would benefit doctors with kids
Care of The Medical Observer PARENTS graduating with medical degrees should be given time-flexible trainee positions to make entering the workforce easier, doctors say. Writing in the most recent MJA, Dr Suzanne Mahady, of Sydney’s Westmead Hospital, said more women than men are graduating as doctors in Australia, and more are raising children while going ...
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Blood Clot Risk Higher In Newer Birth Control Pills, Study Finds
Courtesy of www.cnn.com/HEALTH Women who are using a newer version of birth control that contains the hormone drospirenone have a higher risk of serious blood clot, according to two studies published in the online version of the British Medical Journal. Read the article here: www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.d2151 Drospirenone is found in birth control pills such as Ocella, ...
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Wilson HTM Australian Equity Strategy
Update by Charles Thomasson – Wilson HTM Investment Adviser Foreign investors returned to the Australian market in late 2010, yet underperformance relevent to overseas markets has continued. This suggests that fundamentals, rather than inflows, are the key impediment – Australia has had a downgrade cycle over the past year, while other regions have had upgrades. ...
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Work is good for health: doctors statement
WORK is good for our health while long absences from employment can make us miserable, doctors say. Australian and New Zealand physicians made a consensus statement about the health benefits of work today. In their statement they say that that work is generally good for health while long breaks from work along with unemployment and ...
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The Problems With Medicare Locals
The AMA has gone public with a position of strong opposition to the Government’s Medicare Locals as currently proposed. We have called on the Government to defer the establishment of any primary health care organisations (PHCO) until there has been genuine consultation with the medical profession. The AMA has for some time been calling for ...
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