Three patient deaths I won’t forget
I often recall patients who have died. In one way or another they have left their indelible marks. A woman who had long-standing diabetes with…
Tag: Death and Dying
Hospital transfer hold-ups leading to preventable deaths: surgeons
The first national audit of deaths among transferred patients suggests poor clinical appraisal is often to blame, researchers say.
What killed Beethoven? Pathologist thinks he’s hit the right note
The composer's movements tell all, says Associate Professor Phil Allen, who suspects the maestro had ulcerative colitis.
Pandemic revelation: Australian all-cause mortality dropped by 4%
As COVID-19 was claiming lives, lockdowns likely prevented deaths from other causes, researchers say.
Legal win for doctors who refused to give futile end-of-life care
The son of the patient had accused doctors at Northern Hospital of murdering his elderly father.
Doctors call for rethink on ‘over medicalisation’ of death
An international panel has called for changes to how death is viewed especially in light of the extremes of dying seen in the pandemic.
Doctors, death and Hamlet: A consummation devoutly to be wished?
Shakespeare lived well before the rise of modern medicine. The physicians who make brief appearances in his plays were little more than quacks. But his…
Doctors-in-training free to prescribe euthanasia drugs in VAD reform
AMA Queensland says it is concerned that non-specialists will be able to make critical life-or-death decisions.
Transgender adults ‘vulnerable to premature death’
Researchers have tracked morbidity and mortality trends across 50 years of gender-affirming hormonal therapy.
‘Our fear of dying does not justify medical homicide’
Dr David van Gend says efforts to legalise voluntary assisted dying is an 'assault by state ideology against religious liberty'.
