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Ep58: Billing Part 2—Compliance and the Free Market
Episode 58
In this episode we continue the discussion from Episode 56 about medical billing in Australia. Almost 500 million Medicare rebates are processed eve…
6 years, 4 months ago
Ep57: The Art of Telehealth
Episode 57
COVID-19 has left few people around the world unaffected, and health practitioners are among those at the top of the list. Their daily and intimate s…
6 years, 5 months ago
Ep56: Billing in Byzantium
Episode 56
Australia has one of the best value health systems in the world, but also some of the most Byzantine health regulation. Between the federal Medicare …
6 years, 6 months ago
Ep55: Starting out in Private Practice
Episode 55
This podcast is about one of many pathways in medicine; private practice. It’s a pathway that presents many opportunities, but also personal and fina…
6 years, 8 months ago
Ep54: My Health Record in Practice
Episode 54
How many times have you thought “things would be so much more efficient if we had shared electronic health records?” Australia, now has the My Healt…
6 years, 9 months ago
Ep53: Marrabinya—a hand outstretched
Episode 53
Marrabinya is a Wiradjuri word meaning “hand outstretched.” It’s the name of a service in the Western New South Wales Primary Health Network which fi…
6 years, 10 months ago
Ep52: Opioids Part 2- Regulation and Marketing
Episode 52
In the previous episode we talked about the science of pain, opioid analgesia and dependence. Now we look at the influence of culture, regulation and…
7 years ago
Ep51: Getting off the Opioids- Part 1
Episode 51
The dramatic headlines about the opioid crisis are all-too familiar by now. Australia and New Zealand have followed the lead of the US, and seen a fo…
7 years, 1 month ago
Ep50: Rural Medicine in Aotearoa—Congress 2019
Episode 50
New Zealand doesn't have the same extremes of remoteness of Australia, but it does have a rugged landscape that results in small and scattered commun…
7 years, 2 months ago
Ep49: Training in the Bush Part 2—Remote WA
Episode 49
A third of Australia's population is classified as regional or remote, but as it's such a big place it's hard to provide comprehensive heath care all…
7 years, 2 months ago