Monthly media digest: August/September 2024
16 August 2024
A digest of college news coverage for August/September 2024
IV fluid shortage
ANZCA President Professor Dave Story has featured prominently in national media commenting on the Australian IV fluid shortage.
He was interviewed for ABC Radio's flagship AM program on 15 August, ABC Radio Sydney's Afternoons program, ABC online and WIN TV News (syndicated to news feeds in Canberra, Hobart , Orange, Toowoomba, Rockhampton and Wagga Wagga).
Professor Story was interviewed for ABC TV's Afternoon Briefing program and segments from the interview were used in ABC nightly news bulletins in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Hobart, Brisbane and Canberra.
NSW anaesthetist Dr Mark Priestley was also interviewed on ABC Radio Sydney's Mornings program (starts at 1:47) on 15 August for a 10 minute segment explaining why IV fluid solutions are used.
FPM pelvic pain statement
FPM's new
persistent pelvic pain statement was featured in a 5 August online and print article in
The Age (paywalled) and in
Australian Doctor (paywalled) on 1 August.
The
Age article also referred to the faculty's submission to the Victorian Inquiry into Women's Pain.