Dr Nick Coatsworth
Clinical Associate Professor Nick Coatsworth is a respiratory and infectious diseases physician at the Australian National University Medical School.
Opinion
Health insurance
Patients will pay price if NSW slugs private health insurers
The NSW government is going after private health insurers, but the plan will effectively penalise policy-holders, which will have federal implications for Labor.
- by Dr Nick Coatsworth
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Opinion
Healthcare
I’m a doctor who’ll trust pharmacists to diagnose
NSW and Victoria are indicating a move to give pharmacists more responsibility. Doctors should be part of this reform rather than dismiss it out of hand.
- by Dr Nick Coatsworth
Opinion
Medicare
Don’t protest too loudly, doctors - we do have a Medicare crisis
Fraud is a concern but the real threat to Medicare is the insidious billing of perfectly legal but low-value care. As a profession, we need to own it - and fix it.
- by Dr Nick Coatsworth
Opinion
Coronavirus pandemic
Welcome to 2022, the year this pandemic ends
Australia’s former deputy chief medical officer writes that this is the year the world will overcome COVID-19 as a pandemic and move to living with it as an endemic virus.
- by Dr Nick Coatsworth
Opinion
Vaccination
Victorians want to know why the state’s not opening up as quickly as NSW
There seems to be an underlying concern over the powerful effect of vaccination on transmission and hospitalisation.
- by Dr Nick Coatsworth and Catherine Bennett
Opinion
Coronavirus pandemic
Unqualified and dishonest: the ‘experts’ who undermined confidence in AstraZeneca will cost Australians’ lives
A section of the medical and scientific commentariat has peddled extreme risk aversion to Australia’s detriment. The most egregious examples have amounted to anti-AstraZenecism. It’s not academic freedom. It’s academic dishonesty - and it will cost lives.
- by Dr Nick Coatsworth
Opinion
Coronavirus pandemic
‘Activist’ doctors’ phoney pandemic wars put recovery at risk
We cannot ride this pandemic out in an eliminationist bunker, so the public should not be distracted by activist doctors seeking to score political points.
- by Dr Nick Coatsworth
Original URL: https://www.smh.com.au/by/dr-nick-coatsworth-p4yw8j