Month: April 2016
18. AP8 Prisons: so what is to be done?
“ It costs … taxpayers $109,782.60 a year – or $301.60 each day — to keep a prisoner “on the inside”, according to the Australian Productivity Commission. Alternatively it costs $49,700 – less than half — to provide that prisoner with rent, food, a small four-cylinder car and money for any degree in Australia for…
Read More17. AP8 What is right and what is wrong in the training of medical doctors?
Comment: somewhere out there in medical-land there is a useful answer for many medical questions, but experience (mine at least) suggests that odds of finding a GP who knows is often slim. For someone with basic research skills, good answers tend to come better (and more cheaply!) from “Dr Google”. Also Dr Google soon shows…
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