From wandering wombs to the missing clitoris:How medical misogyny works

From wandering wombs to the missing clitoris:How medical misogyny works

From Ancient Greece right through to modern medicine in Australia today,the treatment of women in science started badly and remains a serious problem.

  • byKate Aubusson andEmily Kaine

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‘Opera House on your doorstep’:Pitch for foreign doctors to plug NSW Health holes
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‘Opera House on your doorstep’:Pitch for foreign doctors to plug NSW Health holes

NSW Health is offering “crisis” rates up to $3050 a day to doctors after more than half the state’s public hospital psychiatrists resigned.

  • byAngus Thomson andKate Aubusson
Patients wait months for scan results at ‘toxic’ Sydney hospital
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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
Doctors’ mass resignation deepens NSW government’s worker woes

Doctors’ mass resignation deepens NSW government’s worker woes

Half of psychiatrists working in NSW public hospitals have tendered their resignations in the latest dispute between the state government and its workers.

  • byKate Aubusson andAngus Thomson
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
Flesh-eating ulcer ‘endemic’ in coastal town with ‘significant risk’ of spread to Sydney

Flesh-eating ulcer ‘endemic’ in coastal town with ‘significant risk’ of spread to Sydney

A flesh-eating bacterium that causes gaping ulcers has taken root in a NSW holiday spot,with warnings from experts that it may now travel along the state’s coast.

  • byKate Aubusson
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This hospital will soon have 12 births a day. Women in labour may be raced down a highway

This hospital will soon have 12 births a day. Women in labour may be raced down a highway

Women giving birth could be loaded into ambulances and raced 100km down the M1 from Monday because of a critical staffing shortage.

  • byKate Aubusson
‘I thought I was insane’:Doctors kept ignoring Keira’s pain. It almost killed her
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Medical Misogyny

‘I thought I was insane’:Doctors kept ignoring Keira’s pain. It almost killed her

Keira Rumble was a victim of a poorly researched health phenomenon known as medical misogyny. Its consequences can be fatal.

  • byKate Aubusson andWendy Tuohy
‘These mistakes cost lives’:The medical bias that affects half of Australia
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Medical Misogyny

‘These mistakes cost lives’:The medical bias that affects half of Australia

Nikki Purtill was lucky to survive an undiagnosed cyst on her brain. Her experience is part of the under-researched phenomenon of medical misogyny.

  • byAisha Dow,Wendy Tuohy,Emily Kaine andKate Aubusson
Sydney student banned from year 12 formal for wearing Palestinian scarf
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Sydney student banned from year 12 formal for wearing Palestinian scarf

A Sydney teenager has filed a complaint with the Australian Human Rights Commission over the punishment he received for wearing a keffiyeh-patterned scarf to his graduation ceremony.

  • byKate Aubusson
‘I am just so thankful’:The test that let little Mairead beat the odds
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‘I am just so thankful’:The test that let little Mairead beat the odds

The findings of a landmark genetic study bolster calls for the federal government to establish a free expanded carrier screening program.

  • byKate Aubusson