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Healthcare
More Australians die while waiting for an organ donor
More than 50 Australians died while waiting for an organ transplant last year – and the number of registered donors is declining.
- by Mary Ward
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Man dies in hospital after Sydney stabbing
Police responded to reports of an assault minutes before the man showed up at hospital with stab wounds to his stomach on Saturday afternoon.
- by Megan Gorrey
Two Westmead security guards stabbed amid spike in hospital assaults
Police were called to Westmead Hospital about 11.30pm last night following reports that a 39-year-old man allegedly stabbed two security guards.
- by Nigel Gladstone
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Crime
The man who shut down a Sydney emergency department
Robert Steven Turner has faced court after allegedly sending death threats to nurses, leading to his dramatic arrest at Westmead Hospital.
- by Angus Thomson
Teenage Swiftie who died in crash remembered as ‘vivacious and very cheeky’
The godmother of a teen who died in a road accident while travelling to Melbourne to see Taylor Swift in concert has remembered her as a beautiful person.
- by Ashleigh McMillan and Alex Crowe
Foundation surgeon at Westmead Hospital brought global recognition
Professor Miles Little was a visionary who changed the landscape of medicine and medical ethics through the force of his ideas.
- by Ian Kerridge and Wendy Lipworth
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Ambulance
Cattle crushes and raging bulls: Inside the NSW air ambulance service
For the first time, the Herald has been allowed into the inner sanctum of one of the state’s most specialised medical services, the Toll ambulance rescue helicopter.
- by Kate Geraghty and Angus Thomson
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Teo controversy
Family’s plea for Charlie Teo to spend a day caring for the girl who has been ‘living death’ for 15 years
The neurosurgeon assured Ellie’s family that if she was his daughter, he would definitely agree to her having an operation to remove a brain tumour. Fifteen years later, the once bubbly and funny school captain can’t walk, talk or feed herself, and is blind.
- by Kate McClymont
Gender care and research to be reviewed across NSW after Westmead revelations
NSW Health Minister Ryan Park has apologised for the death of a 14-year-old transgender boy and committed to a review of gender care and research across the state.
- by Angus Thomson and Laura Banks
Children physically restrained in alarming numbers at Westmead children’s hospital
The latest data also revealed the record numbers of patients ambulances and emergency departments have been tasked with this year.
- by Laura Banks and Angus Thomson
A defibrillator saved this Wiggle’s life. Now he wants them everywhere
The revelation that he was one of only 10 per cent of people to survive a sudden cardiac arrest set Greg Page on a mission to improve the situation for the other 90 per cent.
- by Angus Thomson
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