My dad’s death will not be in vain: doctor
Roy Mariathas’s father died after heart surgery. He wants to protect other families from system cover-up and ongoing grief.
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Sick, vulnerable children face missing out on lifesaving surgeries
The surgery crisis at one of Sydney’s major children’s hospitals has left sick kids facing the prospect of not being able to access lifesaving surgeries.
The age of the bum is upon us. Time to get on board
Activewear has come of age, and scrunch-bum tights are the pinnacle. Big, small or pancake-like, even 50 year-old butts can rock these tights
State of emergency: medical call to arms in the face of ‘bureaucracy gone mad’
The heads of Australia’s medical colleges are warning our public health systems face a dire future of chronic understaffing, unmanageable workloads and critical threats to patient safety unless bureaucratic overreach is overhauled.
Medical body slams PM’s bulk-billing promise as ‘smoke and mirrors’
Labor’s centrepiece Medicare policy promising most patients will be able to see a doctor for free has been discredited as a ‘utopian vision’.
Doctors in despair as crisis costs lives: what’s gone wrong with public hospitals
Deborah Yates was the kind of doctor who lived to serve in public hospitals. But not any more. She is not alone in turning her back on what she says is a broken system.
Whistleblowers are routinely silenced. Now is the time for transparency
Cracks in the public health systems are bleedingly obvious, and can no longer be ignored.
‘Culture of fear’ causes doctors to walk away
Hospitals are at risk of being drained of the country’s most talented and skilled doctors with swathes of the medical workforce set to abandon the public sector amid what is being described as a widespread culture of cover-up and payback.
The road to revolution: desperate doctors demand reform
It started as a staff uprising, led by an unassuming intensive-care physician, that grew into a statewide probe and fears of a toxic culture gripping a health system.
Bulk-billing boost will play well … but the health crisis remains
Labor’s cash injection is no panacea for our ailing medical system and it could well backfire.
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