I read this article elsewhere, and it is horrifying. Given the ballsup made by health departments during Covid, with assaults on basic freedoms, lies about vaccines, and the fact that regimes (like Australia's and China’s) with the harshest lockdown laws fared the worst, it is even more horrifying.

All this guff about 'misinformation' comes from totalitarians who are the real lie-spreaders.

The bastardry of the last two years is now coming out - even without the Royal Commission that we should be having, along with criminal charges laud against some bureaucrats and politicians.

I disagree with the general tenor of the article. Doctors are human beings, and the practice of medicine has changed since I graduated with honors.

Nowadays. it seems to me that money is more important for some (a small cohort) than best practice. And that includes all manner of over service and largely unnecessary referrals? Reportedly, Medicare payments have doubled inside a decade?

I agree with the legislation (the cure) and bemoan the fact that it has become a necessary remedy for what, I believe, has become a malady in the medical profession.
Alan B.

Footnote: It would also seem that a small group of mostly foreign trained doctors and "bogus professors" have been guilty of spreading mountains of misinformation pertaining to covid and vaccinations/immunizations/safe medical practice?

I mean folk who were largely immune and didn't get sick still spread killer diseases like typhoid and smallpox!

And because they didn't get sick dismissed the fact that these pathogens, which includes COVID are lethal for the non-immune/the vulnerable! N.B. ttbn.

We eliminated smallpox and were on target to eliminate polio except for a small group of "ignorance personified" Islamic countries, that refused to make inoculation mandatory.
Alan B.

All right, all right, but what did you expect, Kara?

For decades, you, doctors, flirted with government.
For decades you gathered extraordinary powers over the ordinary citizen, backed by all the instruments of government, including the police, customs and the monstrous TGA.
For decades you were happy to become part and parcel of the bureaucracy, also used its powers to eradicate all competition to your "scientific" and academic privilege.
For decades you were happy for government to be your patron, filling your coffers with tax-payer-grabbed Medicare money.

And now when a little bit of that blows back on you, you cry with crocodile's tears...

It's not about doctors: it's about the relationship between doctors and their patients. It is that relationship that is being interfered with in an alarming, authoritarian way.

Dear Ttbn,

He who pays the piper calls the tune!

Doctor-patient relationship is interfered with the moment a patient presents their Medicare card. I don't, I pay my doctor in cash and do not involve the government, thus I am his patron, not government, but I am in a minority.