Could AI become the ultimate decider for end-of-life care?
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,…
Tag: Palliative care
AusDoc special report: Is medicinal cannabis prescribing out of control?
“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…
Prisoners in palliative care are still being shackled to their hospital beds
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…
Relaxing script monitoring laws for palliative and aged care patients ‘a welcome change’
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…
‘I don’t want to tell families there aren’t any options’: Palliative care’s opioid crisis
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 fear ‘looming crisis’ in palliative care as opioid options dry up
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’…
Voluntary assisted dying is being considered in the ACT — but how will it differ from state laws?
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…
TGA secures alternatives for kids on liquid morphine
The TGA has secured three alternative oral liquid morphine products to compensate for the dwindling supply of Ordine, which is expected to run dry by…
Liquid morphine discontinuation could leave kids with ‘poorly managed pain’
Doctors are preparing to lose access to liquid morphine, with the only brand registered in Australia, Ordine, to be withdrawn from sale early next year.…
‘I want to die peacefully’: She was a fighter, but I knew she was right
It was a busy night in the emergency department. I rushed from one patient to the next, trying to keep up with the constant stream…
