NEWS 15
2025
ausdoc. com. au 16 MAY 2025
NEWS 15
Jet set in its ways? Airline’ s‘ Dr’ fail
Ciara Seccombe WHEN is a doctor always an adult |
the doctor title, it automatically defaults to you being a male,’” Dr |
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doctors on the medical register are female?
assigned the highest weight category,” Jetstar explained. male? On Jetstar flights apparently, McConnell told Yahoo News.
It turns out it is about weight. It stressed that doctors were as trauma specialist Dr Amanda“ I was shocked that in 2025
A Jetstar spokesperson said the only listed as male in“ the back-
McConnell discovered when she they’ ve still got software that default to male was applied to all end of our legacy IT system” but was flying from Cairns to Brisbane. defaults doctors to being male … gender-neutral titles, not just‘ Dr’, that the listing was in line with
She was stopped at baggage It’ s ridiculous.” and was meant to help the airline Civil Aviation Safety Authority check-in as a queue built up behind On canvassing female col- make appropriate weight calcula- guidelines. her. leagues, they told her they often
tions for each flight without inad- Dr McConnell has started an
“ It was taking ages, and the travelled without using their
vertently thinking the load was online petition calling on Jetstar to flight attendant said,‘ I’ m really title because of the extra hassle it lighter than it really was. update its“ outdated” system, say- sorry. I have to cancel your online caused.
“ To calculate the weight and ing organisations as prominent as check-in and manually check So, what is the reason? Igno- balance of flights, non-gender-spe- Jetstar needed to ensure its sys- you in because, when you choose
rance that it is 2025 and half the cific prefixes, such as‘ doctor’, are
tems reflected modern values.
Campaign to scrap‘ stupid stuff’
Heather Saxena THE spectacle of doctors being dragged away from patients to order office supplies and geriatricians having to undergo a working-with-children check are being targeted in a campaign to end‘ stupid stuff’.
AMA Victoria has launched a petition calling on the State Government to implement the global Get Rid of Stupid Stuff( GROSS) program.
Doctors need to open five different programs.
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So what exactly is the other‘ stupid stuff’ faced by doctors in Victoria?
• Lack of headers on pathol-
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tors where the tests were |
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conducted
• Doctors in training needing
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to fill out new employment |
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paperwork every |
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6-12 months as they rotate |
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between health services
• Doctors needing to open five different computer programs
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to run an outpatient clinic
• Delays due to results and discharge summaries not
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being readily available |
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within a health service or |
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general practice
• Excessive paperwork to claim CPD allowances
• Mandatory annual training modules that doctors often have to repeat as they move
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