A hospital that sent home a child who needed emergency surgery and a business claiming to cure cancer were among thousands of complaints against healthcare workers in the past financial year.
This is the team you meet on the worst day of your life. They lift a lid on what it’s really like working at a major trauma hospital, RMH, — and the patients they never forget.
Paramedics have been sent to Victorians — under lights and sirens — complaining they can’t breathe while pinching their nose or coughing after brandy, among other minor matters that are wasting their time.
Thousands of hospital workers were abused by Melbourne patients, who bit, punched, kicked and threatened staff at a rate of more than one attack every hour.
A Victorian doctor working in a hospital lied about upskirting a young woman by drilling a hole through a clipboard to hide his phone despite the grubby act being caught on CCTV.
World-first dwarfism treatment could more than halve children’s sudden infant death syndrome risk, Melbourne-led study reveals.
The rate and severity of dog bites is increasing — with Victorian hospitals treating 10 people a day for injuries. Here’s what to look for in anxious dogs, to prevent bites.
Melbourne mum Angela Ceberano is among those calling on the regulator to name clinics where embryos were destroyed, saying: “You’re playing with people’s lives and their future family”.
Victoria’s health department has been blasted for failing to protect healthcare workers’ mental welfare, while three hospitals have come under fire in a damning report.
Last year, ultra-marathon runner and Melbourne dad Robert Young faced an entirely different race against time — until a generous anonymous family chose to save the life of a stranger.
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