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The human and Economic Cost of Big Public Health
March 12 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm AWST
For thousands of years doctors did their best to treat individual patients based on their individual needs. Increasingly doctors are an agent of government. As no one size fits all this has significant human and economic implications which get next to no attention.
Dr Joe Kosterich M.B.B.S (WA) 1985 is a GP, speaker, author, and health industry consultant. Joe is a regular in the media and is often called to give opinions in medico legal cases. He is WA State Medical Director for IPN, Clinical editor of Medical Forum Magazine, Medical Advisor to Medicinal Cannabis company Little Green Pharma, and chairman of the Australian Tobacco Harm Reduction Association. He teaches students at both UWA and Curtin Medical schools.
Previously Joe held senior positions in the Australian Medical Association and sat on numerous industry and government boards and has extensive experience in the management of medical centres.