Volume 203, Issue 6 - 21 September. Professor Gerard FitzGerald is professor of Public Health at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, and is also a former Commissioner of the Queensland Ambulance Service. To accompany his editorial in the 21 September issue of the MJA, Professor FitzGerald talks about whether paramedics are exceeding the scope of their practice. With MJA engagement editor, Cate Swannell.