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Nicholas Wilcken is a Sydney-based oncologist.

Doctors don’t hate women, but we can be idiots when it comes to their health

Doctors don’t hate women, but we can be idiots when it comes to their health

Just don’t call it medical misogyny. I’m not a misogynist. But it’s fair to say that medicine doesn’t understand women as well as it should.

  • by Nicholas Wilcken

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Farewell Maria Cummins, my champion patient and friend
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Farewell Maria Cummins, my champion patient and friend

I was Maria Cummins’ oncologist for 16 years. She taught me so much about grace under pressure and bravery in the face of crisis.

  • by Nicholas Wilcken
The heartbreaking choices we must make to juggle hospital resources for COVID

The heartbreaking choices we must make to juggle hospital resources for COVID

A cancer specialist who has run a COVID ward describes the challenges on the pandemic frontline.

  • by Nicholas Wilcken
‘These are really sick people’: My week working on a Sydney COVID ward

‘These are really sick people’: My week working on a Sydney COVID ward

The virus is abating - for now. But last month, it was all hands to the pump at my hospital.

  • by Nicholas Wilcken

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