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    Tag: Emergency medicine

    Clinical independence under threat from ‘vertically integrated’ cannabis companies, doctors tell Mark Butler

    February 5, 2025

    Doctor and pharmacy groups have suggested banning medicinal cannabis companies from simultaneously owning clinics and dispensaries, saying doctors’ independence is at stake. AMA Queensland and…

    ‘It was emotionally difficult for them’: Emergency doctor treated by friends and colleagues after 10 metre fall

    January 31, 2025

    Dr Fraser Bliesner has experienced first hand the miraculous impact of a pain team after a shocking 10m fall onto concrete just weeks before he…

    Doctors missed patient’s MI after attributing symptoms to exercise bike mishap: coroner

    January 27, 2025

    Doctors missed an AMI diagnosis because they assumed a woman’s abdominal and ribcage pain was related to a fall onto her stationary bike handles, a…

    For me, telehealth is a revelation – sometimes it’s better than seeing patients in person

    January 25, 2025

    My move into emergency telemedicine, after decades of public hospital practice, has been a revelation. I like to call this type of practice ‘community emergency…

    There was a medical emergency on my flight – I sat in my seat resisting the urge to play hero

    January 15, 2025

    It’s crack-of-dawn early, and I’m on a flight. Working swing ER shifts has left me exhausted, barely packed, and running on fumes. But hey, as…

    Man sustains rectal impalement after folding chair collapses: report

    January 14, 2025

    A 51-year-old man was left rectally impaled after his folding chair collapsed beneath him and part of the frame penetrated his anus, his treating doctors…

    Spot Dx — What’s this bub’s abdominal mass?

    December 6, 2024

    Zane is a three-week-old male infant brought in by his parents with two days of fussiness with feeds, vomiting and now lethargy. Test your clinical…

    Hallucinogen use associated with later schizophrenia diagnosis: study

    November 27, 2024

    Patients who present to ED after hallucinogen use are 21 times more likely to develop schizophrenia spectrum disorder within three years compared with the general…

    Dr Aaron Johnston on the hidden gems he finds in the nasal cavities of small children

    November 26, 2024

    Barely halfway through his shift, paediatric emergency consultant Dr Aaron Johnston has already removed a Lego brick from a toddler’s nose. It is obviously one…

    She returned home to sleep a few floors above her abuser — I hoped she wouldn’t become a dreaded statistic

    November 20, 2024

    Thinking back to my time as a final-year medical student in the emergency department, there was always a nagging sense of being in the way…

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