Blood of man who subjected himself to 200 snakebites used for antivenom
Scientists have used the blood of a truck mechanic to create a potential antivenom against some of the world’s most dangerous snakes. Beginning in 2000,…
Tag: Emergency medicine
‘They can be scared or dead’: GP’s warning to accused mushroom poisoner
Two GPs who treated accused mushroom poisoner Erin Patterson after she dished up a fatal lunch of beef Wellington have given evidence in her murder…
‘They were scared I was going to be killed’: The Aussie doctor who read his own death notice
This story has been updated. See footnote. Dr Mohammed Mustafa’s medical mission to Gaza became so dangerous that the aid organisation that sent him prepared…
‘She smoked, she swore, she sat with her legs apart’: Dr Lilian Cooper, Australia’s battlefield surgeon
Meet Queensland’s first ‘lady’ doctor — a swearing, smoking, straight-talking revhead who later became a skilled battlefield surgeon operating on the front line. Dr Lilian…
Private contractors will be barred from running acute public hospitals after toddler’s death
Private contractors will be barred from running acute public hospitals under new NSW laws introduced in the wake of toddler Joe Massa’s death at Northern…
Patient death at hospital that had no doctors for four days ‘wholly preventable’: coroner
A patient has died at a hospital with no doctors after a telehealth GP prescribed aspirin without knowing of his NSAID hypersensitivity, a coroner has…
‘The smell of death everywhere’: Doctors and nurses return to Gaza amid a fractured peace
Hundreds of thousands of displaced Gaza residents returned home last month. The news images showed the lines of people with their belongings traversing a moonscape.…
Coroner alarmed after NHS physician associate misdiagnoses femoral hernia as nosebleed
A UK coroner has issued warnings over physician associates’ scope of practice and supervision requirements after a patient’s fatal misdiagnosis. Patient Pamela Marking, 77, attended…
Medical Must-See: Toddler’s tiny injury leads to rare fungal infection
A minor eye wound turned into a major infection for a 15-month-old girl from Pakistan, who developed potentially lethal mucormycosis despite nothing to suggest she was…
Locum physician sanctioned for walking out of ‘unsafe’ hospital after seeing one patient
This article has been updated. See footnote. A doctor who walked off a locum job after 45 minutes because she believed the hospital was unsafe…
