The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons elections have commenced. Will it...
The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons has been rocked by the scandal of there being a culture of bullying, harassment and sexual discrimination in the Expert Advisory Group’s Draft Report that was...
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Do patients contribute to God complex in surgeons?
The recent EAG Report commissioned by the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons suggests that there is a toxic culture of bullying, harrassment and sexual discrimination in surgery. There are...
View ArticleWhy I've Been Using Uber Instead of Taxis
Uber is under attack. That’s easy to understand. Taxi operators feel that their livelihood is at risk and state governments are losing out on tax revenue that they gouge out of the industry. To me,...
View ArticleDeceptive Surgical Billing Practices
Last year, the Royal Australian College of Surgeons issued a Press Release on the matter of excessive surgical fees. The then President states “Although government data shows that almost 90 per cent...
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Congratulations to Fellows of the RACS Who Have Voted For Diversity on...
We have seen an amazing result for the 2015 Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Council elections. All six women candidates were elected out of a total of 8 vacancies and from a field of 38...
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No Justice For Those Who Have Suffered Bullying, Discrimination and Sexual...
As Fellows of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, we pay annual subscriptions. There is not a whole lot of practical choice but for us to pay these subscriptions if one wishes to be a...
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Payment for Journal Citation? Possibly Academic Publishing at its Worst.
Many of you who have read my blog or are following me on Twitter, would be well aware of my thoughts about academic publishing. I have always done my best to be careful about which journals I would...
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Payment for Citation Offer Withdrawn - but should never have been offered in...
This Blog post needs to read in conjunction with the earlier entry on the same subject matter."Payment for Journal Citation? Possibly Academic Publishing at its Worst."I wrote to the Editor in Chief to...
View ArticleHow I Almost Did Not Become a Urological Surgeon.
If anybody had suggested that I would become a urologist when I was a medical student or even as an intern, I would have told them that they were dreaming. My exposure to the field was fairly minimal...
View ArticleWhat do you do when a patient asks to speak to another patient who has...
Not infrequently, I am asked by my patients if they could speak with any other of my patients about their experience of having undergone radical prostatectomy surgery for prostate cancer. In the past,...
View ArticleInformed medical costs - Well intentioned actions failing in delivery
Dr Richard Zhu is reported to be on a mission to “expose” the out of pocket expenses associated with initial consultations to see specialists in Australia. He has created a website called SeekMedi in...
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Uber and Sydney Airport
When Uber arrived on the scene, it was like the travelling public’s revenge on the taxi industry. We had been subjected to a lifetime of micro-aggressive behaviour directed towards passengers. We...
View ArticleThose Two Tweets
It is now about 3 weeks since I posted two tweets that were to create a media storm. A week later I wrote an Opinion Editorial in the Sydney Morning Herald to clarify those two tweets. I have made...
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