Nurse sanctioned after stealing dead patient’s debit card and buying $1000 worth of cigarettes
A palliative care nurse has been suspended for six months after stealing a debit card from a dead patient and using it to buy cigarettes. …
Carmel Sparke
Carmel is news editor of 6minutes.
‘There’s no normal skin, none at all’: Medicine gets hard when things go bad in remote Australia
Fresh from the medical front line in Angola, Mozambique and South Sudan, Dr Damien Brown assumed he could handle anything remote medicine in Australia could…
Rethink on asymptomatic carotid stenosis as new stroke-prevention surgery arrives in Australia
A decade after first identifying its potential, vascular surgeon Dr Bernie Bourke has imported a technique for carotid revascularisation — at a time when the…
Not just junior doctors: Aussie study tracks fatigue and sleep loss among consultants on call
Caring for junior doctors — burnt out and fatigued by gruelling shift patterns — has long been a hot topic in medicine. But what about…
Sneeze stifling leads to CSF leak: case study
A woman’s habit of stifling sneezes, especially in public, may have caused a spontaneous CSF leak, doctors report. The 45-year-old presented to an ENT clinic…
Why is 60-day prescribing by GPs falling short of expectations two years on?
Low uptake by GPs, pushback by pharmacists and software snafus are behind the slow uptake of 60-day dispensing, a new report suggests. The promise of…
Doctor who accidentally removed patient’s liver instead of spleen charged with manslaughter
A doctor in the US has been charged with second-degree manslaughter after accidentally removing a patient’s liver instead of his spleen, resulting in catastrophic blood…
‘Scott Morrison is a delinquent idiot’: Meet the nurse who led the fight for Robodebt’s 400,000 victims
As a newly graduated nurse aged 29, Felicity de Somerville found herself caught up in the notorious Robodebt scandal. Living in Frankston in Melbourne at…
Police called to RACP as its college president is booted out of office
This story has been updated following a statement from the board that it is investigating the validity of the vote. Police were called to the…
AMA president says urgent care clinic mistook her patient’s cancer symptoms for asthma
Dr Danielle McMullen has shared the story of one of her patients whose increasing dyspnoea was dismissed by an urgent care clinic as asthma, but…
