Louise stone

More awesome female GPs for International Women's Day, 2025. Thank you all. There are plenty more, but these just rose to the top of my brain

People have a right to choose their GP. International trends in medicine, dentistry & vet science show that patients with complex care are more likely to choose a woman. Medicare privileges quick medicine.All genders do good work, fast or slow, shouldn't we pay people equally?

@PharmGuildAus Nothing like the impact of political lobbying. Mateship is a great thing but shouldn’t really be part of our health strategy

Happy World Pharmacists Day! 🎉 Today, we’re celebrating our incredible community pharmacists who continually go above and beyond to support Australian healthcare. Watch the video below to hear how much your hard work means to our communities! #WPD2024

@trishgreenhalgh @Jo_McGinn @BMA_James_Steen Nice women rarely make history, I believe. Can I join your rabble? Sounds much more productive than the smooth and slick dismantling that is going on over here in Aus

@LittlePersonDoc @SolankiVishaan @brookmanknight Actually bad help can be significantly worse than no help.

@SolankiVishaan @brookmanknight Any help is not always better than no help. Ms Chesterton may have attended hospital had the PA not misdiagnosed her. Susan Pollitt may have had her drain removed in a timely fashion and be alive. Mr Tucker might also be alive. These pts didn’t benefit.

It never gets old. Yet we still have flat earthers thinking anyone with a smidge of allied health can do the full medical scope of a specialist GP. No disrespect. I am also NOT trained to be a nurse a pharmacist or a physiotherapist! So let’s not pretend! Integrate deep care

@RACGPPresident @SkyNewsAust In the NQ UTI pharmacy pilot. 6000 women probably got the wrong antibiotic, or didn't need one. The pharmacists only detected that 9 MIGHT be at risk of a sexually transmitted infection. 3000 women probably had one & were treated incorrectly. Not good enough. Women deserve better

As I told @SkyNewsAust giving pharmacists greater responsibilities is the wrong option. This has been done to address access, but it can lead to disaster. Instead, we need to make sure we invest in general practice care. #GPCare skynews.com.au/lifestyle/heal…

@RACGPPresident And PLEASE DVA, don't try and solve this problem with another app. By the time anyone develops and trials a mental health app, and only 2% of Australians use it, it costs as much as a GP like me. And we do a better and more holistic job. Veterans deserve better than a url.

Caring for our veterans matters. And GPs are taking a 50% fee hit to make sure that they can still provide Gold card care. That's because rebates just haven't kept up with the costs of providing vital care. Let's change that, our vets deserve only the best. #VetCare

@RACGPPresident And a big shout out to Open Arms who are awesome for veterans and their families. You've saved the lives of a few of my young patients who are military kids. Thank you, I hope you are being well supported as well, because the work you do is exemplary. openarms.gov.au

@RACGPPresident And when I see veterans for their mental health, they often go "off the books" with no medicare, because they are afraid their career will suffer if they admit they have a problem. We need to address this perception. Is it a MIS perception or not, DVA?

@RACGPPresident There's a reason why less GPs are seeing veterans. I am highly skilled in mental health, see lots of veterans & because I deeply respect their work, I bulk bill them. But because Medicare is optimised for 6 min medicine, I take a cut & The paperwork is ridiculous Do better, DVA.

@RACGPPresident @SkyNewsAust When Trent Twomey & other pharmacist can use the stethoscope they hang around their neck, & differentiate asthma from cardiac failure,I'll be more settled about "prescribing"."Prescribing" is not patient care.Choosing a drug for symptoms without a good exam is just...bad medicine

@RACGPPresident @SkyNewsAust Thanks, Nicole. I have no problem with pharmacists managing complex meds.They are awesome at what they do. But people don't walk in with a diagnosis. They walk in with a symptom. Assuming you can diagnose with six YEARS less training than a Dr is not only arrogant, its dangerous.

@timsenior My daughters' competition for the most inappropriate PE class.Co-ed group project making magazines explaining puberty? Nope. The winner?Performing arts school (ballet, drama, music). Weigh yourself in class, write your BMI on the board & reflect how you could improve.Unbelievable

Policies that are actively harmful. No. 235 in an ongoing series....

@RACGPPresident So, pple who can pay get antibiotics for their "UTI". 50% don't need it, but pharmacists don't examine them or their urine so they can't tell. Foot traffic and $$ anyway right?The poor can't afford the pharmacists & are more likely to die from resistent infections. Is this good??

The NSW Government’s move to expand the scope of pharmacists to treat a range of conditions is politically driven and risks the health of people across the state. Diagnosis is complex and requires years of training – GPs train for over 10 years. This is a bad move. #PatientSafety

@MarblesMarch Only needed a CT AFTER it was obvious there was something very wrong. It was only obvious because I'm trained to look for it. I doubt the website would have noticed...

@GPswampwarrior What’s the referral criteria for CT Brain in a new ?depression for example? If I referred every new MH presentation for CTB the radiology dept would be flooded ..

Beyond angry. Yet another young person today who has been "treated" using a variety of non-GP mental health strategies (including digital) who actually has a brain tumour. Doesn't everyone deserve a medical workup before we "treat" their "mental health"?

Our book on sexual harassment in medicine almost ready to publish, & so grateful to the authors.Parisa Pakdel from Iran,Dabota Buowari from Nigeria,& others from Japan, Malaysia, Mexico & others++ We are working to make the book open access.Want to help? gofund.me/30294db4

@joegarra61 @mariamtokhi & not enough respect for physicians, & the time and resources it takes to make a good diagnosis. Not enough nurses doing nursing:they are SOOO overloaded, we need more of them. Pts come home with no wound care, & no support because there are no staff. Preventable re-admissions ++

@mariamtokhi Yep the other end of the problem, more GPs and more inpatient beds = no ramping and less people in ED

@reallykazcooke My father convinced generations of scouts that spiders can hide underwater in a bubble of air (true) and can also hide by lining their legs up on the black lines on the bottom (possibly untrue)

@SEPfieldPatient You'd think so. But the narrative usually starts with an ignorant or dismissive gaslighting doctor. I want our communities to work together to solve this problem. But if we continue to look at it as a medical problem, we ignore how insidious it really is. None of us are immune.

#medicalmisogyny I have three chronically ill daughters & have been on the other side of awful mansplaining, misogyny & gendered harm. BUT. Can we please not equate misogyny with doctors? This is not a medical problem. It's a social & healthcare problem #healthcaremisogyny