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Why pain management has become a real pain, for doctors and patients

August 12, 2009 – 6:12 pm

Some patients now have affordable access to a treatment for neuropathic pain, but others do not. These inconsistencies are unfair and have created an ethical dilemma for doctors, reports Dr Michael Vagg, a Consultant in Rehabilitation and Pain Medicine at Barwon Health in Geelong.
(Meanwhile, Dr John Dowden, editor of Australian Prescriber, comments further at [...]

Are we paying a high price for soaring caesar rates?

December 10, 2008 – 10:17 am

The latest national figures show the Australian health system is paying a high price for the ever-increasing rate of caesarean sections.
In 2006, 30.8% of births were by caesarean section, compared with 20.3% in 1997. The Australia’s mothers and babies 2006 report, by the AIHW National Perinatal Statistics Unit at the University of New South Wales, [...]