Tag Archives: Guy Maddern

Nurse practitioners Vs Physician assistants: how do they differ?

September 24, 2009 – 11:23 am

In a recent episode of Crikey’s Diary of a Surgeon, Professor Guy Maddern wrote about the potential of physician assistants to help relieve pressures on our health care system. Physician assistants have been an integral part of the US health system for many decades.
His piece prompted some queries along the lines, what is the difference [...]

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A note to Rudd re evidence-based healthcare

August 19, 2009 – 10:52 am

The PM made a big deal about the need to ensure treatments are evaluated and backed by good evidence in this widely-reported speech at St Vincent’s Institute for Medical Research in Melbourne last Friday.

He said: “ Patients need treatments, technologies, and procedures for which there is evidence from research that these are safe and effective. [...]

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Revealing the diary of a surgeon … and more

June 10, 2009 – 9:57 am

Health bureaucracies and their public affairs units, ministerial staffers and health service managers make a powerful effort to stop people who work within the public health system from engaging in public debate.
On one hand, this is understandable – if everyone was hitting the headlines, complaining about the lack of resourcing to their particular area, then [...]

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