Patient picked wrong nurse to attack — this RN knew martial arts
Daniel Nelson has been dubbed the ‘Jiu-jitsu Nurse’ after a video of him tackling an aggressive patient to the ground using well-honed martial arts skills…
Carmel Sparke
Carmel is news editor of 6minutes.
‘It’s come to nothing’: Whatever happened to vitamin D’s great promise?
Low vitamin D levels was once hailed as a possible reason for numerous illnesses from cancer and diabetes to depression, dementia and respiratory infections. In…
From ‘Top Gun’ fighter pilot to GP: The blood test that changed everything for Dr Tim Nelson
Dr Tim Nelson.“It was a very insidious onset. I mean, in hindsight, now it is clear as day.” Dr Tim Nelson reflects on the period…
Smoking’s apparent Parkinson’s protection traced to carbon monoxide: study
It is a well-known paradox that one of the deadliest recreational products on earth — responsible for about 100 million deaths in the 20th century…
Minister orders inquiry into hospital’s ‘weaponised’ disciplinary system
A formal inquiry will be held into a major hospital where senior doctors threatened to hold a vote of no confidence in their bosses amid…
‘Everything slowed down’: The day a GP saved his colleague from an axe-wielding attacker
Dr Fergus McCabe.GP Dr Fergus McCabe was about to see his second patient of the day when he heard a terrible scream and ran to…
‘They discovered backyard abortion was run by organised crime’: Professor Zoe Wainer’s remarkable activist parents
Professor Zoe Wainer.You quickly get the sense talking to Professor Zoe Wainer that she has journeyed right across the vast geography of medicine through her…
Doctors intimidated and harassed by nurses at hospital, union claims
Doctors are allegedly being intimidated and bullied by nurses, as well as having clinical decisions overridden by management, according to a union complaint into a…
Man develops paraplegia 60 minutes after surf lesson: case report
A novice surfer developed paraplegia within an hour of a lesson after experiencing a rare, non-traumatic spinal cord injury known as surfer’s myelopathy, his doctors…
Butler vows to help nurses work in general practice ‘without GPs looking over their shoulders’
Health Minister Mark Butler has pledged to find further ways to allow practice nurses to work without having a GP “looking over their shoulder”. Speaking…
