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Cognitive testing of older doctors
Cognitive Testing of Senior Doctors by Prof Philip Morris AM www.drphilipmorris.com Today I wish to discuss the proposal by the medical registration authorities to test the mental capacity of doctors at age seventy in an attempt to improve the safety of health services and to protect the...
Repurposed drugs to treat Covid-19: Ivermectin
Ivermectin Statement Introduction This statement provides the justification for our request for the drug ivermectin to be used for the prevention and treatment of Covid-19 infections. We are a group of senior physicians, academics and researchers who have joined together to advocate for the...
Legal restrictions to cross-sex hormone treatment for under 18s
BEFORE the 2017 decision of the Full Court of the Family Court in Re Kelvin, court approval was required for the prescription of hormone treatment to masculinise or feminise a young person’s features consistent with his or her gender identity. Re Kelvin decided that court approval was not needed...
The Australian Mental Health Crisis – an Update
The Australian Mental Health Crisis: A system failure in need of treatment Australia has a mental health crisis. Despite a number of national mental health plans and a decade of changes to public mental health services, individuals, patients, families, carers and support groups from all...
2021 Australian Commonwealth Budget – Suicide Prevention Initiatives
The federal government has put a substantial amount of money into mental health in its recent budget. $2.3bn in all! While additional money is helpful, the bigger question is whether it is used effectively and wisely. It is not a given that more money will really make a...
Managing Gender Dysphoria/Incongruence in Young People: A Guide for Health Practitioners
by Philip Morris | Mar 18, 2022 Gender dysphoria/incongruence in young people is a contested area of medical practice. This approach avoids political, social, religious and ideological positions. This approach to developing guidelines for managing gender dysphoria [1] or gender...
Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI)
Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI): What is it, how to identify it, and what to do about it? The general public is aware that we are seeing the increase of dementia conditions. This creates anxiety, especially as one gets older. The fear is not unreasonable given that the aging of our population puts...
The Australian Mental Health Crisis – A Cautionary Tale For Developing Nations – Update
The Australian mental health crisis - A cautionary tale for developing nations Prof Philip Morris MB BS BSc med PhD FRANZCP FAChAM (RACP) ABPN Consultant Physician in Psychiatry Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia Australian and New Zealand Mental Health Association Gold Coast Medical...
Continuing Professional Development
Continuing Professional Development I have become very concerned over recent times that medical college CPD programs are becoming more prescriptive and less flexible for their members. These programs ask doctors to spend a number of hours at the beginning of each year developing a professional...
End mandatory reporting for doctors treating doctors
Mandatory Reporting A Queensland parliament committee is currently reviewing legislation to make some changes to the mandatory reporting rules of the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Authority (AHPRA). At the moment doctors treating other doctors for mental health problems or physical...