What’s happening to our acute care skills? The broken heart of general practice
Dr Ashraf Saleh is a Queensland GP — for now. He is leaving the specialty due to what he sees as its diminished scope, the…
Tag: Emergency medicine
Cognitive bias, not racial bias, led to Indigenous patient’s misdiagnosis: coroner
Cognitive rather than racial bias led an emergency physician to misdiagnose a 36-year-old Indigenous man with cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome, a coroner has found. The doctor…
Naloxone may improve cardiac arrest survival even in non-overdose cases, study suggests
Overdose reversal agent naloxone can improve survival in drug-related cardiac arrests and possibly other cardiac arrests, a retrospective cohort study suggests. The study is the…
How an off-duty ED doctor turned up at a stranger’s door to save a life
Dr Rhys Ross-Browne was just home after school drop-off, when an alert sounded on his smartphone that would send him scrambling back out the door…
Doctor says govt telling ‘porky pies’ over IV fluid shortage despite improving supply
An “embarrassing” shortage of IV fluids appears to be resolving, but at least one doctor is blaming bureaucratic bungling rather than international supply issues. State…
‘Doctors are at breaking point’: A day in Gaza’s last hospital
Relentless bombings and airstrikes by Israeli forces continue to kill hundreds of people across Gaza, while medical staff in hospitals are stretched to their limits…
‘Horrific’ yet ‘almost normalised’: Mental health patients in ED waiting hours for beds
“It is incredibly distressing to see patients who need admission to a specialist mental health bed waiting for over 24 hours in ED,” says Dr…
Urgent care clinics expanding GP scope of practice, health minister says
The Minister for Health and Aged Care has told doctors that his $580 million urgent care clinics are helping to expand the scope of GP…
My patient travelled to the Kimberley to have his penis cut and smoked over a fire
The Kimberley is a vast, spectacular area of rivers, mountains and nonstop surprises. On arrival at the hospital for a locum, I noticed the reception…
Australia faces shortage of ‘crucial’ IV fluids
A critical shortage of IV fluids has hit the Australian health system with “very little warning” and could eventually impact non-cancer elective surgery. The current…
