Nurse-led clinics costing taxpayers $195 per consult: official figures
Health officials misled the public about the cost per service at ACT’s nurse-led walk-in clinics by burying roughly $10 million in expenses, reveal documents obtained…
Tag: Emergency medicine
‘The children were sent to an expected death … We could do nothing’: The memories haunting Dr Michael Clements
Dr Michael Clements tries to avoid watching the bloody images coming out of Gaza. It is not because he does not care but because of…
Medical Must-See: Doctors rescue boy’s tongue from electric nail clipper
Tongue lacerations from falls or sports injuries are common in children, but one boy was unlucky enough to have his tongue cut open after getting…
Man turns blue after mistaking amyl nitrite for energy drink: case
A middle-aged man who collapsed and turned blue during a boozy night turned out to have ingested a bottle of amyl nitrite after mistaking it…
Patient’s death could have been prevented if doctor used pneumonia risk tool: coroner
A woman with community-acquired pneumonia may not have died if a GP locum had calculated her risk of ICU admission or death when she presented…
Medical Must-See: Shot through the arm, lodged in the brain
Emergency doctors have described an unusual case of a missing bullet from a shoulder wound that was eventually found in the patient’s brain three days…
Aussie surgeon’s two weeks in Gaza: ‘Is this kid going to have a good life if I save him?’
When Sydney colorectal surgeon Dr Sanjay Adusumilli was performing surgery on a 10-year-old in Gaza, part of him just wanted the child to die peacefully.…
‘The bombing is getting closer every day’: Sydney doctor on aid mission trapped in Gaza
A Sydney emergency doctor trapped inside Gaza is pleading with the Australian Government to do more to get him and colleagues out of the war…
Patients using up to 500 ‘nangs’ a day: Aussie case series
Nitrous oxide abuse is causing severe symptoms from psychosis and hallucinations to spinal cord degeneration, ED doctors report in a case series of 22 Australian…
Medical Must-See: Swallowed blister packs to blame for unexplained abdominal pain
Accidental ingestion of medication blister packs could provide a rare explanation for abdominal pain without a clear cause, especially if cognition is impaired, say Swiss…
