OZ Doctors Building An Alternative Medical Association (AMPS) 🎉

A newly-formed medical union gathered in Melbourne at the weekend in a bid to reclaim medicine from the tight-grip of political control.

AMPS (Australian Medical Professional Society) was formed as part of movement to bring back trust and autonomy to the doctor-patient relationship.

The message from medical professionals who attended was clear: Let doctors be doctors and keep the politics out of medicine.

Throughout the pandemic, Australian doctors felt effectively muzzled from having individualised conversations with patients, with some describing the situation as a destruction of medical ethics and the defining first principles of patient care.