Hospitals and Healthcare

Making the wrong decision about how to access care can impact both your health and finances. So what are your options? And what policy reforms are needed to improve affordable access to health care?

In his desperation to be a medical hero, an avid lobotomist became a hero out of Greek tragedy.

I couldn’t deal with the emotional load, so I became a writer, and poured it on to the page, says Joanna Cannon

In her final regular column for Newsroom, Emma Espiner reflects on six years of learning medicine.

It’s about protecting myself.

“I’ve been walking around for the last week seeing what’s coming and feeling somehow unable to share that clearly and effectively.”

Resilience, the ability to quickly recover from difficulty, is crucial as a premed and as a doctor.

A doctor who has been working in Cobargo for decades is continuing to tend to his patients despite his surgery burning down on New Year's Eve.

A Cuban doctor waiting for asylum in the United States has become the only full-time physician at a makeshift encampment for 2,500 migrants in Mexico.

One patient died, while another was charged a large sum of money for a procedure with no proper therapeutic basis, the tribunal found

Use these 5 questions to ask your doctor to make sure you end up with the right amount of care — not too much and not too little.

Even before the pandemic, doctor-patient relationships were in serious trouble. A mobile population, a shortage of doctors, overwhelming workloads, the move towards part-time working (for many GPs, the only way to endure the pressures of the job), bigger practices, larger teams: all of this gnawed...

Dr Albert Foreman discovered a passion for medicine later in life. Now 91, the Darwin practitioner still feels he has more to contribute to the profession.

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When Dinesh Palipana was hit by a spinal cord injury in 2010, he was told to reconsider his dream of becoming a doctor. He is sharing his story in the hope of changing the future for people with a disability.

Advocates and doctors say the number of people attending specialist check-ups and calling an ambulance for chest pain has dropped dramatically since COVID-19 began, with possibly dire consequences.

Health-care workers are our most valuable asset in an outbreak. We must protect them as best we can.

Dr. Rob Davidson, executive director of the Committee to Protect Medicare, questioned Vice President Mike Pence in Des Moines, Iowa, about the Trump administration's push to cut Medicaid spending.

I need to debrief and I am only too aware that I am so so so much luckier than some of my colleagues and many of my patients I work in the Southern Highlands of NSW, Australia. I was unable to get in on Saturday because of the fire (road closure and evacuation orders), worked an extra shift yesterd

As a Public Health Service officer and later a university professor, he chronicled health-care inequities and his own experience as a cancer patient in his early 30s.

Harassment, discrimination and other mistreatment is leading to burnout among female doctors, a new NEJM study says.

When medical student Dinesh Palipana was left a quadriplegic after a horrific car accident, he was told he would never become a doctor. Now he’s Queensland’s first quadriplegic doctor at a busy hospital.