Hospitals and Healthcare

There are about 100,000 men and women with chronic critical illness in the United States, and this number is only expected to grow.

Dan Doctoroff’s efforts to rebuild the city after 9/11 brought him power. A terrible diagnosis brought him peace.

Before Hannah Catton was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, her symptoms were dismissed as period pain and stress.

The Taranaki DHB and an ED doctor who "failed" in the care of a woman who died in hospital of kidney failure have been ordered to apologise to her family.

Then one day medical staff realised he wasn’t stuck in minimal consciousness when they were testing him with different objects.

They gave him a cup, and he put it to his mouth to drink. They gave him a hairbrush, and he brushed his hair.

“I started crying,” Donna says.

Then they gave him tissues. Instead of using them blow his nose, Thomas passed them to his mother, so she could wipe her tears.

In a matter of days, Mick O'Dowd went from being a healthy, sport-loving father to a quadruple amputee. This is his extraordinary story and his warning to others how a simple sore throat or even a mosquito bite can turn deadly.

When a fit cyclist broke his back and suffered a stroke after an accident, his wasn't the only life that would change forever. Now he has been reunited with the nurse who has spent five years fighting for answers.

When one of Australia’s leading researchers on neck injury suffered his own, he gained a new understanding of the patient experience.

After chemotherapy, I’m planning a future beyond medical care. I’m grateful but somewhat daunted by the challenge, writes Hilary Osborne, the Guardian’s money and consumer editor

The hope at the root of my self-destruction

British TV star with terminal cancer reveals details of diagnosis.

There are ways to avoid being trapped by a condition that doctors can’t understand.

Khaidir Abu Jalil was diagnosed with a rare, deadly, autoimmune disease at the start of the pandemic. He knows nobody and is about to be discharged in time for Christmas.

My mantra used to be “Stage IV cancer! Could it get any worse?” Then it got worse.

When Victoria Mapplebeck was diagnosed with breast cancer, she decided to record each step of her journey. Shot on an iPhone X, Mapplebeck filmed her time in waiting rooms, surgery and chemotherapy. The Waiting Room is an unflinching portrait of the blood, sweat and tears of cancer treatment

People with mental illness are at their most vulnerable when they're discharged from hospital. Without the support of family or friends at this time, they're less likely to recover.

How my repeated ER visits were part of my frustrating experience with a thyroid cancer odyssey.

Few want to think about their own deaths. And forms rarely capture the complexity of real-life medical decision-making. But there are ways to tackle these and other roadblocks.