Australia cannot afford to ignore these 1100 – or 13.4 million – women
Editorial
Healthcare

Australia cannot afford to ignore these 1100 – or 13.4 million – women

Tackling medical misogyny is about ensuring the wellbeing of a population Australia cannot afford to lose.

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RMH scandal deepens with claims surgeons rorting WorkCover,private health insurers
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RMH scandal deepens with claims surgeons rorting WorkCover,private health insurers

The state’s corruption commission is investigating claims that surgeons at one of the country’s top hospitals fraudulently billed WorkCover and private health funds.

  • byBroede Carmody andHenrietta Cook
Patients wait months for scan results at ‘toxic’ Sydney hospital
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Hospitals

Patients wait months for scan results at ‘toxic’ Sydney hospital

A backlog of more than 17,000 MRIs and other scans at Nepean Hospital is putting patients at risk of delayed diagnoses,the hospital’s staff have warned.

  • byAngus Thomson andKate Aubusson
‘Almost killed me’:1000 women dismissed,left in pain and misdiagnosed
Investigation
Medical Misogyny

‘Almost killed me’:1000 women dismissed,left in pain and misdiagnosed

More than a thousand women have shared their disturbing encounters with the medical system as part of an investigation into medical misogyny.

  • byCarrie Fellner andEmily Kaine
Hospital stripped of trainee doctors over staff,patient welfare concerns

Hospital stripped of trainee doctors over staff,patient welfare concerns

The Central Coast’s only public obstetric and gynaecology service is about to be severely depleted with the temporary loss of accredited trainee doctors.

  • byKate Aubusson
Denied access to euthanasia,they took their own lives. A coroner hopes their despair will not go unheeded

Denied access to euthanasia,they took their own lives. A coroner hopes their despair will not go unheeded

The euthanasia watchdog has been urged to consider the impact of voluntary assisted dying refusal under current Victorian rules.

  • byBroede Carmody
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‘Really disgusting’:Surgeons probed over ‘operating on multiple TAC patients at same time’
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‘Really disgusting’:Surgeons probed over ‘operating on multiple TAC patients at same time’

IBAC is investigating allegations surgeons at a major Melbourne hospital monopolised TAC patients and billed the insurer for operating on multiple patients at once.

  • byHenrietta Cook,Broede Carmody andCarla Jaeger
The sunburnt country turned things around. But it can’t stop now
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The sunburnt country turned things around. But it can’t stop now

Although Australia’s public health response to skin cancer risk should be celebrated,there are real and founded concerns that the gains made could be lost.

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These nurses stopped cleaning. Then the hospital docked their pay
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Hospitals

These nurses stopped cleaning. Then the hospital docked their pay

As stacks of dirty linen and hospital waste piled up,seven private hospitals issued their nurses and midwives with a stern warning.

  • byAngus Thomson
Revealed:How our hospitals fail half their seriously ill patients

Revealed:How our hospitals fail half their seriously ill patients

Fewer people are visiting NSW emergency departments with non-urgent conditions,but emergency staff are overwhelmed with a record number of seriously ill patients.

  • byAngus Thomson
‘We offer anaesthetic but only men need it’:The persistent myth about pain

‘We offer anaesthetic but only men need it’:The persistent myth about pain

Do women or men have a higher threshold for pain? It’s a question that raises a number of problems with Australia’s medical system.

  • byWendy Tuohy