Alison Green

GP, teacher, colleague, parent, partner, patient. Interested in high quality sustainable primary care. Views my own. She/her Mastodon: @[email protected]

[Adj Prof Karen Price, 20-22 RACGP Past Prez @brookmanknight]

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“It seems fairly clear that the government has made a policy decision to not fully insure people for care in the Medicare system but is leaving the implementation and explanation of that policy to doctors.” https://t.co/7Y8ffLIm71

[Chief Health Officer, Victoria @VictorianCHO]

Case numbers are rising in Europe and closer to home in Singapore, so we’re likely to see similar here. And though cases may rise, we could avoid MANY people being hospitalised and dying with those up-to-date doses of vaccine. Please don’t put it off for longer - book now.

[Dr Skye Kinder @skyekinder]

There is also a pretty clear conflict of interest in this story, whereby Dr Faux quite literally holds the patent for an app that would position itself as the solution to this problem, and whereby she is the CEO of a for-profit business specialising in Medicare billing.

[Alison Green @agreen4060]

@samanthamaiden @DrKate_Miller @amapresident @samanthamaiden you’re on the wrong side of this one. Speaking as a former Canberra public servant/
/resident/govt lawyer/patient. Now GP. Of course fraud is wrong & should be exposed. Likewise it’s wrong to do crap story research & proceed to smear an entire exhausted profession

[Alison Green @agreen4060]

This happens so rarely (entire profession agreeing) we should start an honour board. Common themes seem to be tone deaf allegations indiscriminately targeting drs in short supply who are *flipping exhausted*. Last time all drs agreed like this was flabbergaslighting incident..

[Sue Walker @drsuewalker]

@DrKate_Miller @RACGPPresident @brookmanknight @GilliantheGP @mariamtokhi @imaanjoshi Patient w v challenging personality disorder- his dog the only friend. Dog old, failing & in renal failure. GP loads the incontinent dog into his back seat, drives them to the vet and holds his howling patient as he says good bye.
LOVE this GP ❤️❤️❤️
Lucky I’m married to him 🥰

[Royal Australian College of GPs (RACGP) President @RACGPPresident]

Allegations of Medicare fraud in the media today are extremely disappointing and based on limited data and opinion. The vast majority of GPs are doing the right thing and deserve the community’s support.

[AMA Media @ama_media]

The AMA is extraordinarily disappointed at the allegations today in the media suggesting that up to $8b is being defrauded each year from Medicare by health professionals including doctors. These claims are an unjustified slur on the medical profession.

[Alison Green @agreen4060]

@tanya_plibersek did you really roll out the “come down on doctors like a ton of bricks” talking point. As a former public servant now GP this is depressing - you seemed more discerning than the average advisor told to distract the public from the dire underfunding of health.

[Dr Eric Levi @DrEricLevi]

This broke me. I had to read it twice because I didn’t have the strength the first time.

These are the families I work with. May we always be tender and humble. May we always know how to sit in the rubble beside them. https://t.co/gBHn3uxGVU

[Alison Green @agreen4060]

@DrKate_Miller @RACGPPresident @brookmanknight @GilliantheGP @mariamtokhi @imaanjoshi Laborious trawling through past records of new patients, often >100 pages, entering past history, reminders, problem lists for next consult; countless emails & well structured referrals (helping our colleagues triage well); phone calls to all & sundry to advocate for a patient…

[Alison Green @agreen4060]

@DrJaredDart I have 100% *never* understood this. Why are doctors not seen as worthy of protection? It is like we are somehow not actual humans.

[Alison Green @agreen4060]

Quick, this book by @NeelaJan got a rave review from @annabelcrabb on @Chat10Looks3 this morning & if you don’t know why that matters: it’s going to sell out. Time to start seeing doctors as people, not a replaceable commodity to extract maximum service from.

[Alison Green @agreen4060]

Exactly. & also, this is why it’s important to pay up & join the @ama_qld @AMAGenPractice @AMA

[Alison Green @agreen4060]

Best teaching experience ever to be part of this #vulnerabilty in medicine course led by Dr Michaela Kelly of the General Practice Clinical Unit @UQMedicine

[Johanna Lynch @JohannaLynch21]

Thrilled to share a publication from Vulnerability in Medicine teaching team - describing the course we have been delivering to third year medical students at The University of Queensland! https://t.co/yxeg1LMqTq

[Alison Green @agreen4060]

Where most people in Australia receive most of their health care @RACGP @AMAGenPractice @Mark_Butler_MP @amapresident

[Dr Neela Janakiramanan @NeelaJan]

The collapse of any single hospital-based specialty will cause a varying degree of localised unmet health need/disability/death.

The collapse of primary care (GP) will cause total health system collapse and widespread unmet health need/disability/death.

[Alison Green @agreen4060]

@ian_hickie @RACGP @brookmanknight @amapresident @Mark_Butler_MP @NC_Robinson @Emma4Dobell @ian_hickie you are lacking traction. What’s your gap? What age groups do you see? Can you interpret an ECG where that’s relevant to your prescribing? @Mark_Butler_MP knows where most people receive most of their care. & it’s not an app or a (barely accessible) psychiatrist.

[Alison Green @agreen4060]

@DrAlanaFisher Gee @DrAlanaFisher, that’s cherry picking I’d expect from a journalism student exploring spin.Everyone in cradle to grave medicine feels out of their depth sometimes. In MH, due to underfunding & no timely escalation pathways for the most complex. Regards, a busy GP. @RACGP

[Alison Green @agreen4060]

@QLDCountryGP @theMJA Of course mental health is being reviewed. @theMJA it’s embarrassing you would publish this 1 vested interest perspective. GPs are doing lions share of MH work during the pandemic. + cradle to grave everything else in the same flipping consult. & almost no psychiatrists in sight

[AMAQueensland @ama_qld]

Our hospitals are overwhelmed and the forecast COVID peak is still five weeks away. Please wear masks. Please get your booster shots. Do everything you can to keep yourself and your loved ones out of hospital, AMA Qld Pres @BoultonMaria has told ABC https://t.co/B7Aki1E8Xd