If you are publishing a family doctor's gross billings, without acknowledging his or her astronomical overhead, you are part of the problem, not the solution to the doctor shortage. #doctors #physicians #supportdoctors #healthcarebc #doctorshortage

Anyone else notice a shift in who you are following on Twitter? I am now mostly following/listening to people who believe that the pandemic isn’t over, that we’re on the brink of a second pandemic, and a vaccine only approach won’t save us.

Australia will reach a total of 10,000 COVID deaths this weekend, a little over 2 years since the pandemic hit Australia. By comparison, a bad flu year would have ~1,000 deaths.

Fred I get the feeling he says more than he is supposed to

Any discussion of suppressing #covid19 transmission? Anyone? #HealthMinisters #auspol #pandemic #CovidIsNotOver

The NSW Premier is saying the opposite of what every decent doctor and epidemiologist and scientist is saying. The opposite. He says Covid is nothing. It's less worrisome than the flu. We need people to keep working. We are all being sacrificed to the rich. Do you see it now?

Since Long EBV => multiple sclerosis, long HIV => AIDS, long HCV => liver cancer, long HPV => cervical cancer, What is #longcovid going to turn out to be, especially after multiple reinfections/and for kids ? #covid19 #CovidIsNotOver #auspol

A mask is a small price to pay, to protect those around me and reduce further transmission. Along with vaccination, distancing and ventilation — I’ll be doing my part. I thank everyone doing theirs, too.

Denis - The COVID info guy - New South Wales Chief Health Officer Brad Hazzard Dominic Perrottet It's the behaviour of people that maintain pandemics. Perfect way to keep it going

Denis - The COVID info guy - Mark Butler MP We've been saying this for six months and he only just realised?

I don’t appreciate being interrupted while speaking on serious risks of repeated covid infections. I particularly don’t appreciate being interrupted by shouting LNP MPs who refuse to wear masks. We all have a duty to look after each other. Here & everywhere. Put your mask on!

Voting for a new Royal Australian College of GPs (RACGP) President starts today and the field is large and interesting but we need someone not in the existing RACGP committees and councils as we cannot negotiate with a Covid headwind that got us huges changes under Dr Karen so now we need a savvy negotiator

why did Qantas scrub all the frequent flyer points off its customers during Covid whilst Virgin Australia did not? My alligiance is now to Virgin and my recent flight to Darwin 5 stars

Peter FitzSimons As a citizen of one of those Cwth members that’s not a republic, it felt intrusive to wake up one morning two weeks ago with a new HoS and no say in the matter.

Unnecessary hospital visits cost around $540 per presentation. That’s it. That’s the Tweet. #justaGP #MedTwitter Mark Butler MP Dominic Perrottet Bronnie Taylor

Lovely patient came in and told me they'd 'solved the #Medicare problem'. "If you just ask everyone for $10 that should help cover increasing costs". They were #flabbergasted when I said that was illegal, and that GPs have been asking for it, but Gov wouldn't change it. #auspol

Prof Jane Munro Atul Gawande The New York Times Primary care is the one thing successive Federal governments steadfastly refuse to invest in It’s inexpensive, and proven highly effective Go figure

Dear #hospital Doc, Seeing a patient in clinic, and then telling them to see their GP to arrange bloods & imaging FOR YOU, and have the results forwarded to you including having radiology transfer images across systems, IS JUST LAZY, and possibly not #Medicare rebateable.