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Australian Orthopaedic Association Dinner to Honour Dr Bruce Shepherd AM
Marriott Sydney Harbour Hotel. Dr John Harrison. 21 August 2009. ... He saw and heard and understood what an incoming government proposed to do with our health care system in the late '70s, early '80s and he was appalled at some of the deficiencies that the National Health Care System in the United Kingdom, where he had trained, had created; he decided Australia should not follow the same pathway to a poor public health scheme when we had an efficient, caring, compassionate one running with a lovely balance between charity through honorary attendances at public hospitals by surgeons and others, offset by the right of private practice in those institutions, which made it an honour and an extreme attraction to be good enough to get an appointment to those places.

Submission: Health Workforce Australia Bill 2009 Submission
4. The Australian Society of Orthopaedic Surgeons therefore expresses grave concern about the potential for sub-standard training and the licensing of non-medically qualified practitioners to cut bone and tendon by the processes in the Bill with consequent lowering of quality and safety of care for the community.

Patients Denied Access to Doctors???
Reports that patients have been left without medical attention by a system designed by NSW hospital bureaucrats have stunned orthopaedic surgeons. The SMH (10.1.09) claims that a new system known as NART (Nurse Ambulance Release Team) was set up and not dismantled until the deaths of 2 patients.

The Deaf and Doctors: A Shepherd's Two Flocks
During the time that I have occupied myself with the world of the deaf and the independence of the profession, I have managed to maintain a busy orthopaedic practice and, I believe, a good standard in my specialty. I became responsible for the non- compulsory continuing education of orthopaedic surgeons throughout Australia for 3 years and later became president of the Australian Orthopaedic Association, in 1987. I am a little sad- dened by the fact that I was unable to publish the results of much of my own work because of other commitments; perhaps I was just not motivated enough.

Techno-Babble Bingo Game
A recommended past-time for anyone having to deal with the health bureaucracy. (March 2004)

Medical Indemnity
ASOS responds to rising medical indemnity premiums following a call by United Medical Protection Australia's largest Medical Underwriter. (December 2000)

Motor Accidents Authority (NSW)
New Initiatives for Motor Accident Victims - The Motor Accidents Compensation Act 1999 (NSW) - Implications for Orthopaedic Surgeons (September 2000)

"Application of GST on Orthopaedic Surgeons"
This advice provides a general overview of the legislation and its application to the Health and Medical industries. (available as a 340k rich text format download January 2000)

"ASOS Surveys"

• Annual - Public Hospital elective Orthopeadic Surgery Waiting List Survey
• Medical Indemnity Insurance Survey Results (1997)

Medicare (1998)
The government was warned about the possibility of overservicing and overutilisation. They did not accept that it was impossible to police such a system. An opening was created for unscrupulous people to abuse the system. ... After all it is our money with which the government plays and we all would like to see some system where checks are made on this ridiculous expenditure. (Dr. Merv Cross)

A.S.O.S AGM. World Trade Centre, Melbourne. (1995)
Address: Australia's Health (Peirs Akerman). Critically examined, Australia today is a sick country. ... It gives every appearance of being in a serious decline, and but for the fact that the apparent malaise seems further advanced in other Western nations, would rate a bed in an international nursing home.

A.S.O.S Conference 1994
Address: The Practise of Medicine in the Year 2000 Independent Profession or Government Department?

AOA Presidential Address (1987) (Professional Freedom)
The Presidential Address was given by Dr B. Shepherd. From the 47th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australian Orthopaedic Association (Melbourne 28 September - 1 October 1987).