Healthcare
Who pays for COVID’s victims? Ultimately, we all do
Even if you do not care about the health of others, there is a self-interested reason to want fewer people spending months of their lives in private hospitals.
- by The Herald's View
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Spinal surgery, aged care, long COVID: Australia’s most expensive hospital stays revealed
Private health funds are becoming particularly concerned about the burden of long COVID on the health system, five years since the pandemic began.
- by Angus Thomson
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IBAC probes claims sick patients languished as surgeons chased fees
In one case a woman who was critically unwell in the intensive care unit waited from 8.30am until late afternoon for surgery to treat a potentially deadly infection.
- by Henrietta Cook and Broede Carmody
Travellers at Sydney Airport warned to watch out for measles
NSW Health said anyone transiting through Sydney’s international and domestic airports on January 17 should watch for measles symptoms for at least another 10 days.
- by Angus Thomson
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Mental health
NSW is in a cost-of-living crisis. Here’s what it is doing to our health
Joanne Cockle cancelled a specialist appointment because she couldn’t afford the $380 gap fee. Balancing her own needs with those of her two children is a constant stress.
- by Angus Thomson
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Mental health
Judges, doctors warn of ‘unacceptable risk’ to public safety
Doctors are deeply concerned for their severely mentally ill patients and the public, as Sydney courts brace for the impact on the criminal justice system.
- by Kate Aubusson and Angus Thomson
This birthing unit couldn’t find staff. Now it’s being replaced with offices
The gutting of Wyong Hospital’s maternity unit will leave the Central Coast’s 350,000 people with only one remaining birthing unit.
- by Angus Thomson
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Medical Misogyny
‘I would need to meet your mother’: Doctors refuse women’s requests for sterilisation
The detailed findings of a landmark Australian survey into gender bias in healthcare has delivered more sobering news about women’s experiences with the medical system.
- by Aisha Dow
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Healthcare
Jan could finally see clearly after more than a year. Then a bird gouged her eye
Jan Wright was having coffee with friends at a Frankston cafe when she was attacked by a bird. Her case is one of a rising number.
- by Henrietta Cook
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Mental health
Psychiatrist walkout is not about money, it’s about saving lives
The NSW public mental health system is so under-resourced that clinicians cannot provide the standard of care they are trained to give.
- by Pramudie Gunaratne
The Sydney suburbs missing out on free GP visits
NSW Health Minister Ryan Park said the collapse of bulk-billing was putting pressure on the state’s hospitals and urged the federal government to prioritise Medicare reform.
- by Angus Thomson
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