No More. It Ends Here.
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Fat and docile, big and dumb
They look so stupid, they aren't much fun
"Docs aren't fun".
The problem we need to address is the need to limit the activities and scope of AHPRA.
Being here tells me that you have an interest in changing the processes that rule us and AHPRA in particular. Doctors going about their business and working hard have earned AHPRA’s disdain: these docs are fat and docile, big and dumb. We need to change this dismissive opinion now- for our sake, for the sake of the medical industry and for the sake of the people we are looking after – our patients.
AHPRA today, in the opinion of many doctors has transcended to acting like a pack of crazy piranha. With the new world order of AHPRA, every complaint is justified and every doctor is guilty. Every doctor is also guilty of things their staff may have done. This all sounds ridiculous except to those doctors investigated by AHPRA for accusations of being witches or investigated by AHPRA because the doctor’s staff was accused of giving a patient-the “evil eye”. (The patient was a paranoid schizophrenic in the second case, but the complaint was still given credibility and the doctor dragged through an investigation.)
The next question here is did the patient here make the complaint themselves or were they coached? I am serious. Consider how impartial a system of medical supervision for doctors can be if OHO/AHPRA staff or “official” accessory staff actually coach the patient to make a complaint. It Happens.
You are visiting this site because you are interested in how the changes in the regulation of medical practice will affect you, and affect you they will. Choose to act or choose to not - then it all just happens - eventually. You can choose your actions, but not your consequences.
The War Strategies
We have three basic strategy directions to enable you to help yourself.
1. www.Cons10.com This site aims to teach you the techniques that will maximise your income and that cost the system money.
And Why Not? For 30 Years, the system has aimed to pay less and less and to use the stick to try to keep you working more and more. Learn How the game is played for your own sake. No one needs to know. Haircuts when I was young were $5 and a Medicare consult $15.85. Now a haircut is a minimum of $40, but a Medicare Concult can be $35. The writing is on the wall. Don't be the last to learn to play the game. Your Loss!
2. www.Guvnot.com This site focuses on the tactics of political action and subversion. Covert & Overt.
Consider undertaking activities that will make a statement -but not expose you to official scrutiny or censure. Or really get involved if you have a need to get even.
3.www.Bloodweaver.com This site focuses on group action. It is by working together that we can maximise our impact and make a statement.
Very few individuals go it alone. Remember, commonly most of our big issues face off against the decisions of government. (Government is a grouping of individuals given a common purpose).
It is only by forming similar groupings of individuals with common purpose ourselves, that the actions of government can be opposed. Too often an individual needs to stop, to take care of personal matters, to take time to relax, all in the context of a busy life and ongoing work commitments. Government employees essentially are able to devote their “full-time” attention under the direction of an individual (higher-ups within the department for example), to achieve the purpose.
To oppose the actions of government (or the private world version – companies), requires the formation of Groups with Common Purpose, Group Resources, groups formed often over extensive geographical regions, which may even transcend national borders, (as in the case of companies operating internationally or the Australian Federal Government acting across the many states , for example).
Bloodweaver.com is our tool for developing groups to oppose government, companies and malevolent organisations e.g. AHPRA. But it is intended as a tool for many people with similar needs for public action.
Let’s talk about AHPRA- the classical organisation needing an opposition group.
More On Our War Strategy
Our strategy is to give you some options for changing your working environment.
1. This site (www.cons10.com) is devoted to letting doctors control their working environment. Our Focus: limiting consultations and maximising income to keep yourselves and your businesses viable. Do the 10 minute consultation training module. This site on the Web www.cons10.com
It is made to display online much like a web page. It should project well onto a screen. Feel free to show it to others or to talk about it. Just mention us though, to help us all to do something about our working milieu.
You need to keep some of the principles in front of you every day to remind you what you are trying to achieve. Make some cheat notes and put them on your desk at work.
2. www.Guvnot.com This site looks at the background of our dilemma. It looks at the justification for action. It shows those of you lucky enough not to see a complaint, what a complaint looks like. It suggests actions to be taken ; Overt and Covert to initiate change in the Medical World. You can be helping us all win and no one need ever know.
www.Guvnot.com is a site that aims to serve as a guide to the simple things you can do to run a campaign to force an issue.
Every great intervention consists of three parts or acts. The first part is called “The Pledge”. We show you some ordinary everyday things and ask you to Commit to them – to see if it could indeed be real for you.
The second act is called “The Turn”. Together we are going to take the ordinary something and make it do something extraordinary. There is no secret formula or secret words or secret influences. But sometimes seeing things happen is not enough. Making governing organisations or Administrators stand up and notice is not what we’re about. We want change. Do the small things in a combined strategy to succeed.
That’s why this intervention has a third act, the hardest part, the part we call “The Prestige”. Creating energy for change in an industry where democracy and rights exist only as words and hallucinations.
Runnymede
3. www.Bloodweaver.com is devoted to helping small groups of people with shared interests to get together and to work to effect change.
It would work for doctors but would work for other groups of people with shared interests as well. Our goal here is to work within the system (legally) and allow democratic and legal processes to funnel the force for change effectively- creating change from within the system of government. The power of democracy is to allow people to make changes in their world and their government. If each person is true unto themselves, they are experts in their own self-interest and can be relied on to build a world that serves the most to the mostest.
Bloodweaver is about forming small special interest groups to address issues.
Large organisations handle small issues badly. There is not enough "general" interest to serve as a force for change. The issue may only affect a few or be of serious significance to a few. Our solution: Get together in a small group of people with a shared interest and work to effect change. Groups of a maximum of 5-6 share costs, share ideas and usually achieve consensus in a small pool of well acquainted members.
If you dream of seeing GPs doing Point of Care" Ultrasound, you may balk at spending $10,000 in a campaign to try to achieve change, but spending $2,000 each for 5 of you, may well be a much more acceptable sacrifice to make to achieve your dream or ambition.
We all share a social / work milieu so finding other likeminded people may not be difficult. The Medicare system effectively dictates what work you can do, what equipment you can use and what you get paid for it. Doctors in Australia have never spent much time imagining a new future, but it is indeed possible if you work with likeminded people to effect change.
