Adriana: The brain dead woman kept alive as a ‘fetal incubator’
The description of Adriana Smith as a fetal incubator is confronting but accurate. The 30-year-old nurse is currently in Emory University Hospital in Georgia in…
Tag: Medical ethics
Do doctors really withdraw life support prematurely for patients with brain injuries?
Medicine is about life and death, a fact starkest when doctors advise families to end life support for a loved one. These decisions are routine…
Minister pledges to lift gag law that stops doctors broaching VAD with patients
Doctors will no longer risk being referred to AHPRA for raising voluntary assisted dying as an option for terminally ill patients under a Victorian Government…
Review board to examine suicides of eight patients who were rejected for VAD
Eight suicides by patients denied access to voluntary assisted dying are being examined by the Voluntary Assisted Dying Review Board in Victoria, which could trigger…
GP praised during inquest after taking over sole medical care of woman with life-threatening anorexia
A GP has described the professional isolation he faced after taking on the sole medical care of a woman with terminal anorexia nervosa. In a…
PSR uses customised software to detect GP supervisor’s dodgy MBS billings
A GP supervisor has been found guilty of altering medical records on an “industrial scale” in an attempt to cover up his inappropriate Medicare claims.…
‘Don’t tell them I told you’: How to deal with unsolicited patient information from third parties
“Dad’s actually an alcoholic. He shouldn’t be on the road. But he never tells you this stuff. He just says he’s great. Make sure you…
‘Exceptional circumstances’: Doctors ordered to continue woman’s futile life support
A court has ordered doctors to keep treating a woman they deem to have irreversible brain damage, while her family attempt to raise over $400,000 to…
Should doctors stop using the names of dead white men?
It’s a man’s world — at least when it comes to the eponyms for 3500 body parts, diseases and surgical techniques. Used by doctors every…
What’s the point of clinical anatomy research? Surely the human body is fully mapped by now
You might think that given the view that anatomy started around the time of the ancient Egyptians, we’ve learned all we can from dissecting and…
