Dr Philip Nitschke’s controversial suicide pod — dubbed the Tesla of euthanasia — has reportedly been used for the first time, triggering several arrests by…
“People were almost grieving for their lost ability to see patients and families in person.” Throughout 2019, Victorian medical oncologist and palliative care physician Dr…
The suicide death of a Queenslander who took assisted dying drugs intended for their spouse has “fatally exposed” the state’s voluntary euthanasia laws, a coroner…
Doctors obviously lack imagination. While the medical profession has been anguished at the prospect of their mass redundancy as a result of diagnostic machine learning,…
“The script for medicinal cannabis comes in, then things start to fall apart for them,” says Dr Stephen Parker. “They become dramatically unwell and don’t return…
Eric Whittaker spent the final hours of his life lying unconscious shackled to his hospital bed with leg cuffs. The 35-year-old Indigenous man was an…
Prescribing opioids or benzodiazepines to aged care residents or palliative patients would no longer require logging in to script monitoring software under a Queensland Government…
Doctors have warned the Australian market will lose around 15 opioid analgesics later in the year, with one palliative paediatrician saying the alternatives may not…
Doctors have warned the Federal Government that it needs to act to stop a looming crisis in palliative care and pain management due to clinicians’…
The first Australian Capital Territory voluntary assisted dying bill in more than 25 years was tabled in parliament this week. This was possible after the…
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