August 28, 2026 — 7:30pm

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The federal government has announced that 84.1 per cent of visits to general practitioners are now bulk billed, and has called that progress. The figure counts the doctors who’ve stayed in the profession. After 13 years, I am not one of them.

About four years ago, a patient walked into my consulting room struggling – she told me that much. What she could not yet tell me was that she had a specific plan to end her life, and the means to carry it out. She came back recently to tell me that because of the time and…

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