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Podcast: Empowered!
Episode: What has happened to our doctors?
Description: I recently had an enlightening, and also very disturbing, conversation with retired GP, Dr Philip Bradfield Stowell.Despite being born into a multigenerational family of doctors, Philip entered medical training in the UK almost entirely unprepared for what the practice of medicine actually entailed. Suffice it to say, he did not care much for the increasingly bureaucratic, algorithmically-driven model of medicine that he encountered both in the UK, and in Australia after he emigrated here.Dr Stowell drifted into a practice focused on helping patients with complex, chronic health problems… but as he discovered, Australia’s hi...