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    Tag: Emergency medicine

    ‘She smoked, she swore, she sat with her legs apart’: Dr Lilian Cooper, Australia’s battlefield surgeon

    March 28, 2025

    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

    March 27, 2025

    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

    March 10, 2025

    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

    March 7, 2025

    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

    March 7, 2025

    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

    February 14, 2025

    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

    February 12, 2025

    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…

    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…

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