Hospitals and Healthcare

While ex-colleagues stand on the picket line in Wales, Jack Tagg is enjoying life in Australia.

A year-long investigation reveals the devastating impact on families of ultimately futile procedures conducted by the renowned brain surgeon.

A new report, endorsed by some of the country's top medical colleges, warns the effects of climate change will place immense pressure on Australia's hospitals in the next 10 years.

Exclusive: state branch of AMA also wants mandatory mask fitting for frontline health staff

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

'What does he want us to do: only train male doctors?' female doctors pick apart controversial claims in leaked union emails.

The operating theatre can be an extremely stressful workplace. Life can hang in the balance and tensions can rise, but that's no excuse for bad behaviour.

Feisty little Mila is more her father's daughter than anyone might guess. The one-year-old's failing liver was entirely replaced with a section of her dad's, after Victoria's first father-child organ donation.

Yuggera, Warangoo and Wiradjuri doctor Kristopher Rallah-Baker says it’s important others ‘see they won’t be brought down if they complain about racism’

The truth is that Medicare - the bedrock of Australia’s health system - is sick, and could soon be placed on life support. 

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.

Rob Dickson has gone from looking after 100 expeditioners in Antarctica to being a GP for the 1,755 people who live in the remote town of Queenstown on Tasmania's west coast. He says regional Australia can be more isolating.

Sydney hospitals stripped of training accreditation exposes a fundamentally flawed healthcare system that trains future doctors by breaking them.

Acclaimed brain surgeon Charlie Teo defends his prices, after a colleague criticised the disturbing number of online fundraising campaigns — some worth up to $120,000 — to access his life-saving expertise.

As healthcare professionals we have a duty to report if we become concerned about a colleague’s misconduct

For six decades, Dr Ron Bade served his small rural Victorian town around the clock and in turn the community supported him — and its health service.