‘I worked in Ukraine, but Gaza is an emergency like nothing before’: a doctor’s story
Dr Edward Chu was part of a team of Médecins Sans Frontières staff who went to Gaza in December to provide medical support following Israel’s large-scale…
Tag: Emergency medicine
Doctors back new paediatric sepsis criteria over inflammation-based model
Paediatric sepsis and septic shock diagnoses should no longer be based on systemic inflammatory response syndrome criteria, according to an international team of doctors. Instead,…
Malfunctioning $259m clinical records system suspended after hospital doctor complaints
Doctors have welcomed the suspension of a controversial $259 million clinical record system they had warned was dangerous to patients. Late last year the NT…
The 45 specialists awarded Australia Day Honours for their contribution to medicine
The names range from Professor Fiona Wood and Dr Brett Sutton to ENT surgeon Professor Kelvin Kong and oncologist Clinical Associate Professor Judith Skinner. A…
Clinical review rejects doctor’s claims that ED staff were urged to prioritise patients in ambulances
A clinical review has found no evidence that ED staff were being forced to prioritise patients in ambulances over sicker patients arriving in waiting rooms…
Most urgent care clinics struggling to fulfil promised opening hours amid GP shortage
*Story updated 3.50pm 17/01/2024. Only around a quarter of the 58 GP urgent care clinics are managing the 8am-10pm opening hours promised by the Federal Government back in…
Doctors ‘intimidated’ to prioritise ambo patients ahead of sicker ED cases to improve ramping figures
A leading emergency doctor claims medical staff are being “intimidated” to treat patients who arrive by ambulance over more urgent cases waiting in the ED…
Bacteriophage renaissance: Could ‘hungry’ viruses save us from antibiotic resistance?
“Long before mammals evolved, bacteria and viruses were fighting it out on this planet. “Some viruses adapted to live quietly in bacteria. “But a lot…
Medical college axes MSF doctor’s speech over ‘political narrative’
A keynote speech by an Australian doctor currently in Gaza has been dropped from the emergency medicine college’s annual scientific meeting over its ‘political’ content.…
Urgent care clinics – what exactly are they doing for general practice?
This story has been updated with a correction on the numbers attending Westmead Hospital’s ED. It comes as a visual jolt. Walking through the doors…
