Michael Page

Chemical pathologist interested in cardiovascular disease and other things.

[The Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia @PathologyRCPA]

“Our mission relates to doctors and patients and if we don’t have a strong medical workforce, we don’t have the best patient outcomes.” @AMA_WA President @mikempage, #pathologist and #RCPAFellow, shares his goal to unify the medical workforce ➡️ https://t.co/ltS19sxMwu

[Dr Michael Page - AMA (WA) President @AMA_WAPresident]

Very welcome WA Govt announcement on upcoming health workforce summit (https://t.co/N5eqbYy8nO) - we will be very pleased to positively contribute to ensure strength of WA health system into the future. But we need action right now.

[Dr Michael Page - AMA (WA) President @AMA_WAPresident]

Smart move by SA Health in the interests of its patients. Junior doctors are essential to the functioning of our public hospitals and are leaving WA hospitals for more attractive opportunities - right as we head into winter. We need to find ways to retain as well as recruit.

[Michael Page @mikempage]

I have NEVER seen or heard of a nursing or allied health colleague on night shift expressing resentment towards Drs for the long-established and very sound custom of taking what is usually an extremely brief period of shut-eye.

[Michael Page @mikempage]

Similar story in an outer metro WA hospital a few years ago ... couches removed from Drs common room, replaced by plastic cafeteria chairs, to prevent sleeping. Hospital exec didn't last long (emblematic of deeper cultural problems). I think driven by misguided anti-elitism -

[Michael Page @mikempage]

spend many non-work hours studying, researching, etc.; sleep time is limited; and (2) The admins themselves fail to provide rostering for Drs on shift that are scientifically sound, safe for Drs and patients by providing adequate progression, time off between, etc; importantly,

[Michael Page @mikempage]

@poped01 Absolutely. AMA(WA) DIT C'tee publishes Hospital Health Check survey results just before annual intern recruitment. It has exposed awful culture of some major tertiary sites, leading to undersubscription in favour of hospitals with better culture. Sends an important message.

[Michael Page @mikempage]

@cameronsloy @brookmanknight @GilliantheGP It’s a very deliberate, misleading, euphemistic furphy and a consistent feature of the broader campaign

[Michael Page @mikempage]

anyone trying to sell it as such - to public, government, would-be non-medical prescribers - either doesn’t understand this or is being deliberately misleading.

[Michael Page @mikempage]

Pharmacy prescribing financially benefits owners and requires Guild’s lobby power, but when I was an employed pharmacist I also craved greater role and responsibility in care. Final push for me was encouraging, non-malicious advice of a respected pharmacy prof:

[Michael Page @mikempage]

where in reality most prescribing begins at diagnostic work up; fundamentally, it can not be separated from history, exam, investigations. Learning this process takes years of robust, supervised under- and post-graduate practice. It is not a quick bolt-on job;

[Michael Page @mikempage]

Public interest and noble disclaimers that “x newspaper has chosen not to reveal personal information” aside, I’m not sure that it is ethical for journalists to trawl leaked Medibank records of named health information that they should assume a priori is not for their eyes

[Michael Page @mikempage]

Presumably it reminds them of iridescent algae @OneBlakeMinute

[𝑀𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑎 @MeliMels99]

The lighter penguin is an elderly female whose partner died this year. The darker one is a younger male who lost his partner two years ago. Biologists have followed them as they meet every night to comfort each other. They stand for hours together watching the lights. ❤️

[Michael Page @mikempage]

@LastCardiology Congratulations on the study. How do you see this evolving to use in (also evolving) non-ED settings eg urgent care?

[Michael Page @mikempage]

Central thesis of ABC/SMH Medicare story more confusing by the day. Powerful Drs' lobby, which is not representative, has input into PSR head, which is protectionist, though unfairly targets doctors, but only nails a handful, so there must be many more, so here is no evidence ...

[Michael Page @mikempage]

Hey @abcfactcheck I've got a tip off for you. There's a dodgy claim going around about an $8b Medicare rort, would you take a look at it? Love to see some value-add without gotcha.

[Michael Page @mikempage]

Now it’s “up to?” The original story on ABC describes it as an estimate, not the upper limit of a range. So what was the actual estimate and range (and what were the methods used to establish it), or is this just a subtle backing off to a nebulous position that can’t be refuted?

[Michael Page @mikempage]

@firstandfifth @skkoopman “Shining light on an issue” is not justification for throwing numbers around, especially when an individual or group of individuals can be harmed by the unproven accusation.

[Michael Page @mikempage]

ABC has painted itself into a corner on the $8b Medicare “rort.” They know it doesn’t stack up, but are defending it with low-grade gotchas, refusal to seek facts, illogical argument and denial of a fair hearing to an entire profession. Mutually assured reputational injury.