‘I always wanted to be a doctor – 12 kids later I’m about to start medical school’
As she entered her teens in the 1990s with an obsession for the British TV show called Casualty, Rosemary Murphy set her heart on making it…
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‘Angels of death’: Why do healthcare workers kill those they are meant to protect?
“This was a cruel, calculated and cynical campaign of child murder … There was a deep malevolence bordering on sadism in your actions.” These were…
Midwife struck off after telling new mother that terrorists could poison baby formula
An experienced midwife in the UK who claimed terrorists could contaminate baby formula to scare a mother into breastfeeding has been struck off for 18…
Ciprofloxacin warning after cardiologist’s tragic suicide
The suicide of a UK cardiologist shortly after he was prescribed ciprofloxacin highlights that many doctors remain unaware of the link between the antibiotic and…
Underground medicine: Aussie GP tells of her new life under fire amid the war in Ukraine
'Once we start talking to them, they often break down, words spilling out of them of the horrors they have endured,' says Dr Lisa Searle.
Male footballers 60% more likely to develop Alzheimer’s
Elite male soccer players are 60% more likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease or other dementias compared with the general population, a study shows. But goalkeepers do…
SIDS risk ‘four times higher for infants with family history’
Siblings of infants who died of SIDS are four times more likely to die of SIDS themselves, compared with newborns with no family history, data…
Failed medical student worked as a psychiatrist for 20 years: UK prosecutors
A failed medical student went on to practise as a psychiatrist for more than two decades and even passed the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ clinical…
The year that was: ‘I couldn’t leave my mother to die’
Dr Natalia Peker used a phone and family contacts to get her mother to safety.
The year that was: Surgeon who branded patients’ livers banned for life
UK transplant surgeon, Dr Simon Bramhall, ‘had undermined' public trust in the medical profession, concluded a medical tribunal.
