What medical service?

In relation to our article Medical Skullduggery

Diana Rickard, Tumbling Waters NT, Mar 5, 2025

I can’t say I was pleased to read Don and Patricia Edgar’s article. Grateful, yes, and sick of the lack of care from those adhering to the medical practitioners industry instead of the oath to heal and care for the those in need of healing and caring. There’s no bulk-billing GPs in the rural area I live in, only those with “mixed billing”.

And… yes, indeed, they look you up and down whether you’re on an aged or disability pensioner or not and they assess whether they’ll get instant money or not. With me, they get nothing but contempt. I need a doctor who cares that I live on a pension as well as that I understand my body. After all, I’ve looked after it for more than 70 years.

I’m also an advocate (now unpaid) for others needing preventive care as well as advice on how to look after chronic pain without becoming drug addicts. It shouldn’t matter where we live or how old we are, it’s our right to have dignity and be treated with respect, especially by health professionals. It’s much more than upping fees for doctors, isn’t it?