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Sat, 1st, Nov, 2025: Voluntary Assisted Dying, Dr Nic Carr – St Kilda Medical Group

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Sat, 1st, Nov, 2025: Voluntary Assisted Dying, Dr Nic Carr – St Kilda Medical Group

Fiona and Macca are joined live in the studio by Dying with Dignity Advocate Dr Nic Carr.

Nick trained at Cambridge University and in London before moving to Melbourne in 1988. He wrote his master’s thesis on antibiotic prescribing and has sat on numerous committees and writing groups dealing with appropriate medication use.

Nick is an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Melbourne University, and continues to give talks and lectures on a wide variety of health topics.

Nick was one of the first GPs in Victoria trained to provide Voluntary Assisted Dying care (VAD) care and is happy to take referrals for this. He is a Board member of Dying with Dignity Victoria.

Nick has extensive media experience. For 3 years he presented health stories on ABC television with Jill Singer and George Negus, and subsequently did a weekly radio segment with Steve Vizard. He can often be heard on RRR radio on Sunday mornings (102.7 FM, “Radiotherapy”, 10-11 am), and Tuesday evenings on ABC Radio Melbourne (774 AM, with David Astle, he of the impossible crossword fame; “Writs and Cures”, 8-9 pm). He can also be found every Friday and Sunday on TV, on Channel 7’s House Of Wellness.

Nick received the inaugural Division award for ‘significant contribution to General Practice in 1998, and Melbourne University’s Outstanding GP Term Teacher award in 2018.

Nick’s first book,“What Happens Now? The essential book for first-time fathers” was published by ACER in 2012. Sadly it is now sold out, so you’ll have to go to the library or scour the second-hand shops.

Some Links:

Those recent fun/informative videos:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=medpantv

Discussing antibiotic resistance, Conversation Hour with Richelle Hunt, ABC Radio 774, September 2024:

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/theconversationhour/the-conversation-hour-becoming-resistant-to-antibiotics/104294056?utm_content=link&utm_medium=content_shared

All about the eye, July 2024:

https://youtu.be/zo7_juFFuvA?si=8som19-Jg4BPlycA

Feb 2024: Fun segment of Nick getting his ear pierced – almost…:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxL8Q0emK28

Discussing dementia and VAD on ABC radio Conversation Hour, November 29, 2023 with Richelle Hunt and Nick Healey (Nick Carr starts around 15 minutes in):

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/theconversationhour/the-conversation-hour/103144940

Fun segment on memory, 2023:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE2_yimmkCA

Dr Nick and Dr Isabelle on arthritis, 2023:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U23858BJ52U

On grief after VAD, 2023:

https://www.dwdv.org.au/our-services/grief-after-vad/

Dr Nick and Dr Isabelle on leeches, 2020:

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=574041659854146

Discussion explaining the Voluntary Assisted Dying process, 2020:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDna_UuQ9NI

The Age – interview on prescription drug overdose, 2020: