Should doctors wear body cams for protection against violent patients?
Body cams in hospitals — is this the coming thing in the attempts to tackle the waves of violence faced by doctors and their staff?…
Tag: Hospitals
Uber driver, refugee, surgeon and now aspiring GP — meet Dr Karim Amani
“I was operating on a militia person when his colleagues came inside the operating theatre with guns and rocket-propelled grenades. “They did not respect anything…
Legal loss for obstetrician who sued colleagues for ‘cartel’ conduct over their on-call roster
An obstetrician who sued six colleagues for millions of dollars under anti-cartel laws after they excluded him from their on-call roster has lost his legal…
Scabies treatments scarce as outbreak spreads to four hospitals
A scabies outbreak has spread to four NSW hospitals, with dozens of health staff infected amid a national shortage of treatments for the infection. The…
Aussie-wide immunotherapy program launched for infants with peanut allergy
Free oral immunotherapy will be offered to infants with peanut allergy nationwide under the first Australian treatment program of its kind outside of a clinical…
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…
Meet RUPERT — the new decision support tool for treating kids with UTIs
Deciding when to prescribe IV antibiotics for UTIs in kids could soon be made easier thanks to Australian doctors who have developed a world-first individualised…
Private healthcare crisis: NIB refusing to pay its ‘fair share’ warns hospital boss
When private negotiations go sour and spill into the public domain, you know something is going badly wrong. Last week, the country’s largest not-for-profit private…
‘I would do anything to have made different decisions’: junior doctor on toddler’s sepsis death
Two doctors who treated a toddler who died of sepsis have told an inquest that they wish they had acted differently. Dr Christopher Morris was…
Hospital executive ‘repeatedly’ certified deaths outside the law, says inquiry into falsified certificates
Some 29 patient deaths at Launceston General Hospital will be referred to the coroner after a review concluded a former hospital executive repeatedly signed death…
