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Is period pain enough reason to delay an exam?
7 Answers Published 1 year, 1 month ago in Making News.
DOCTORS and students are outraged by suggestions that medical certificates are coming too easily to exam-dodging students who have headaches or period pain. RMIT’s academic board has received a complaint that some doctors are issuing too many certificates for “minor'’ ailments and should be blacklisted.
RMIT’s academic board has received a complaint that some doctors are issuing too many certificates for “minor'’ ailments and should be blacklisted.The claims were made anonymously by a member of the university community, as part of the board’s overhaul of its special consideration policy.
Australian Medical Association Victoria president Doug Travers said the complaint was upsetting, false and a “cheap shot'’ at hard-working GPs.
“It’s upsetting that people take cheap shots at doctors,'’ he said.
“The issuing of medical certificates is a serious task. Doctors understand that and take care in assessing the situation when issuing a certificate appropriate to that person.'’
“If people are concerned about the behaviour of doctors, they should take it up with the appropriate body, not make back-handed comments with no substantiation.'’
RMIT Student Union president Patrick O’Keeffe was outraged.
“The fact that such proposals would even be considered by the academic board displays widespread disregard for the right of students to receive confidential medical care,'’ he said.
“These comm2ents reflect a deep distrust of some medical practitioners and students. The misinformed perception of the university is that students are rorting the special consideration policy (but) this is not the case.'’
Health problems the university considered “minor'’ could be indicators of serious illness like endometriosis, Mr O’Keeffe said.
However, student vice-chancellor Joyce Kirk said the board would not act on the suggestion.
“At no time did any of the parties to the briefing consider or discuss the possibility of blacklisting individual doctors or medical practices,'’ she said.
“It is clearly not the board’s intention to act on the `blacklisting’ feedback received.'’
A FILM showing Melbourne’s infamous 70K Crew graffiti gang hanging off trains and buildings has been pulled from a city film festival.
They’re brazen, forthright and absolutely convinced that scrawling their names on billboards and trains is going to change the world, experts say.
But the prolific 70K Crew are also criminals and the censors don’t […]
A TRIBUNAL will decide whether pub owners and managers are responsible for brawling, vomiting and noisy drinkers after they have left their bar.
Yarra Council will this week file papers at the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal against the Peel Hotel in Collingwood, saying its music is too loud and patrons are causing trouble outside.
Yarra […]
EIGHT months after being stabbed twice in his left knee, 25-year-old accounts manager Amrish Jusrut is about to run the race of his life.
Jusrut, set upon by two young men on a train in February, has since undergone an operation and several painful months of rehabilitation. He will tackle all 21.1km of the half-marathon […]
How did the Spring Racing Carnival come to be more about fascinators than bookies? Why do fashion and horseracing go together hand in hoof?
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past week, you would have heard the Reserve Bank has put interest rates up .25 per cent.
That means house repayments go up and rent will probably follow. But does a quarter of a per cent really make that much difference? And how many of us know […]
Premier Steve Bracks quit politics this morning and has fueled suspicion that his deputy might follow him out.
In a snap press conference this morning, Mr Bracks said his family had sped up his decision to leave after eight years as Premier. He would not comment when asked directly whether his deputy John Thwaites would also quit. […]
Should mobile billboards be driven off our roads?
10 Comments Published 1 year, 4 months ago in Making News.City councils want mobile billboards banned from parking more than 15 minutes on our congested roads. Port Phillip has already done it and Yarra Council is considering a ban.
Yarra Councillor Kay Meadows says they are unregulated, they hog parks and clog the already congested city streets.
Do you think they have any place on our roads?
A Sydney bloke has been charged with destroying six mobile phone towers overnight … with a restored army tank.
The Melburnian wonders: where does one get an army tank at 3 o’clock in the morning, and what would you do with it?
ABC online has the story here. The video in particular is priceless:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/07/14/1978671.htm
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Thieves are attacking students in inner city parks to get their iPods and laptops. Melbourne’s armed robbery squad told the Melbourne Leader that students were victims of half the robberies reported in June. In one case, a student had a gun pressed to his head at Alexandra Gardens. The full story is here: http://www.melbourneleader.com.au/article/2007/07/11/18185_mev_news.html
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