Alisha Rush: Family’s tribute to girl let down by mental health system
WARNING: This article discusses mental health and suicide. When 12-year-old Alisha Rush took her own life late last…
Health regulator AHPRA apologises for breaching doctor privacy in bulk email
The national healthcare watchdog has inadvertently identified more than 100 doctors, nurses and other practitioners who were offered…
“No One Knows When It Will End”: A Doctor on the Ebola Emergency
“After that, we put on a hood, and then an apron. We are checked for any leaks of…
Opinion | Capping the Price of Health Care Is a Mistake
With health insurance premiums surging again, a growing chorus of economists and policymakers has settled on a cure…
15% of doctors put in over 960 hours of overtime, health ministry survey finds
Fifteen percent of hospital doctors in Japan work over 960 hours of overtime per year, a health ministry…
South Korea’s beauty tourism boom draws doctors away from hospital work
Health Care Chinese, Japanese visitors flock to Seoul region for cosmetic procedures Advertisements for cosmetic treatments line the streets…
In This State, a Chatbot Now Doles Out Prescriptions
A prescription refill program that quietly launched in Utah earlier this year has kicked off a big…
5 Different Types of Pain You Should Never Ignore
When it comes to severe medical situations, emergency medicine doctors see it all. They’re the physicians who folks…
Anna Nicole Smith’s ex Larry Birkhead blasts new biopic about late model
Anna Nicole Smith’s ex Larry Birkhead spoke out against the upcoming film “Trust Me, I’m a Doctor,” which…
Why I used an £89,000 pension lump sum to buy five acres of woodland
Matthew Barber, 66, decided to do something a little different when he received his pension lump sum four…
How A.I. Might Change the Way Doctors Think
Daniel Kahneman, the behavioral psychologist and Nobel laureate in economics, distinguished between two modes of judgment: the quick,…
$22,000 Per Hour: Assistants Use a Legislative Loophole to Outearn Surgeons
It takes a surgeon around three hours to remove a cancerous prostate gland. Most sit behind a console,…