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Medical Gap Cover Report
Dear members, Here is the APRA Private Health Insurance Medical Gap publication which provides data on in-hospital medical services as issued 16 August 2018. Private Health Insurance Medical Gap June 2018 Private Health Insurance Medical Gap Glossary Note: The...
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What’s it like working as a surgical assistant?
Originally Published: RACGP 8th Oct 2018 GPs say combining general practice with the operating theatre keeps work stimulating. Once a fortnight, Queensland GP Dr Natasha Yates chats to a nervous patient to calm them down. Then the anaesthetist puts the patient to...
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Submission Re Proposed Changes To Surgical Assistants’ Fees And Billing
Dear Professor Grigg, In response to your letter to stakeholders inviting comments on the proposed changes to remuneration and billing procedure for surgical assistants, I wish to make a submission in view of my twenty-five years‘ experience of assisting in many...
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Article by Dr John Cunningham on Basic Bronze, Silver, Gold
The government’s looming private health insurance reforms are a slick marketing gimmick. It will still mean patients making wagers on their future health. Next April will see the rollout of Federal Government reforms of the private health insurance sector — an attempt...
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The Good Old Days
‘That no Person shall in future be appointed to serve as an Assistant to the Surgeon of any of His Majesty's Ships, who shall not have been found qualified on examination to serve as Surgeon, or as first Assistant, that the Pay of Assistants so qualified shall be Six...
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Dr Bruce Shepherd’s Obituary
Vale Dr Bruce Dalway Shepherd, AM (26/10/1932 – 25/05/2018) Bruce Dalway Shepherd was born at the height of the Great Depression on 26/10/1932 in the NSW country town of Tamworth. It was a difficult birth. His mother Mary (a former trainee nurse at the Coast Hospital...
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