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I blame pop culture, specifically film and TV, for giving me an unrealistic idea of how things in the real world operate
Junior doctors are dangerously exhausted and senior staff are too busy to train them at Concord Hospital’s troubled radiology department.
Have a hole in your lung? Need your gall bladder removed when you’re 22 weeks’ pregnant? You might have to wait 21 hours for treatment.
From massive loss and intense grief, the Marrin Weejali Aboriginal Corporation was born
Sydney GP Jamal Rifi has sacrificed his front yard and his retirement to try to protect his community from COVID-19. Now he’s braving the Delta outbreak to home-vaccinate people in multicultural pockets of south-west Sydney.
It's one of the busiest and most esteemed emergency rooms in the country, but for decades some of the most vulnerable have slipped through the cracks — until now.
A Western Sydney aged-care home is in lockdown after a staff member who tested positive to coronavirus worked six shifts while showing symptoms of the deadly bug.
Nepean Hospital has barred Professor Hans Peter Dietz from practising, following emailed comments that were widely condemned as "gender-based discrimination".
Sydney's controversial lockout laws should be rolled out across the whole of NSW according to the Nurses Association, with one nurse telling the inquiry into nightlife she was seriously considering leaving emergency nursing until the changes were made.
St George Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit has been stripped of its accreditation to train junior doctors amid protracted allegations of bullying and dysfunction among senior staff.
Critically ill patients needing treatment within 10 minutes have instead waited over an hour for treatment at a major Sydney hospital emergency department.
Bankstown Hospital faces losing accreditation to train future surgeons as after a junior doctor was worked to breaking point.
'Tell us again they're teething problems': A new mother had no idea how close she came to dying after undergoing a caesarean section at the Northern Beaches Hospital.
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Changes to staff allocations will affect some of their most vulnerable patients, say nurses.
The family of a 20-year-old man who died as a result of catastrophic errors at a Sydney hospital say they were lied to about crucial medical notes being destroyed as they probed the cause of his death.
Many healthcare workers are afraid of speaking to the media, but they are also desperate for the public to know what's been happening in our hospitals. As the Omicron wave peaked in Sydney last month, Background Briefing was following them. These are their stories — in their words — about what they saw.
No one laughs. Bloody hell. These are really sick people. Everyone is on oxygen, there is coughing, spluttering, body aches. When I finally get into a room (gowned, gloved, goggles and visor on), I’m looking at a terrified person who has never seen me before and, I realise, doesn’t speak much English. Reassuring body language is hard. “I’m the doctor!” “You’re going to be all right!” Not that I actually know that. I do some gloved shoulder-squeezing to reassure, listen to the chest, feel the tummy and get out of there. You’re supposed to limit the time you are in the room.
Michelle Rosentreter is a senior ICU nurse, and she says her team is just holding on.
University of Sydney researchers are trialling patch-based technology that may one day be used for COVID-19 and flu vaccines.
Sydney's two children's hospitals will continue to provide paediatric heart surgery, after a review found limiting services to one site was not feasible.
A critical incident investigation has been launched after a man who was handcuffed by police at Sydney's Prince of Wales Hospital lost consciousness and died.
Sydney hospitals stripped of training accreditation exposes a fundamentally flawed healthcare system that trains future doctors by breaking them.
Yet another senior member of staff has left the $600 million Northern Beaches Hospital, which has been dogged with problems since opening in November.
The new $600 million hospital boasts “a stunning view from of the Northern Beaches” but its stockrooms are missing basic medical supplies.
Health authorities are warning the public to watch for measles symptoms after a young adult with the highly infectious condition recently spent time in public areas in Sydney and the central coast.
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