Doctors and Medical Professionals

Arlo requires around-the-clock care from a team of eight nurses in order to live at home, but a shortage of nurses in WA means his mother is taking on the role of multiple carers.

When Elizabeth arrives at hospital she is screaming and writhing in pain, as the fully animated mannequin plays her part in training bush nurses for real life emergencies. 

A New South Wales Far South Coast doctor and clinic owner forks out $30,000 to take a much-needed three-week holiday.

Eileen's heart used to beat through her chest due to a rare medical condition. A lung transplant gave her a second chance, and her family would like to see more people register as organ donors.

Dan Bell will never forget the day he had to help save the life of a colleague who'd been stabbed by a patient at Tasmania's North West Regional Hospital. It made him question his future as an emergency department nurse.  

Hermann Wittmer, 65, is one of the founding doctors of his region's only advanced cardiology unit. But he says red tape and a shortage of Australian-trained doctors is putting the service at risk.

The Shire of Dundas says medical services will resume next month after a locum doctor provider was engaged to replace its GP, who closed his clinic this month after a dispute with the council over increased funding.

A backlog of more than 54,000 radiology images at the Gold Coast University Hospital will take up to three months to clear, forcing the hospital to outsource X-rays, CT scans and ultrasounds to the private sector.

Loved by many and a self-proclaimed "black sheep", Elaine McCormick has been supplying medicines and health advice to some of Queensland's most remote communities since she was 21 years old.

A Bendigo doctor wants the government to make it easier for internationally trained nurses to practise in Australia after being out of the workforce for some time.

Robert Hadden abused trusting and vulnerable patients for years and will serve the maximum sentence for the offences, which a judge described as "horrific". 

A coroner's report into the death of a child at a Kimberley hospital says better resources could have prevented her death, with a nursing union saying it's a sad example of desperately needed changes to regional health care.

AMA Vice-President Dr Danielle McMullen says a new initiative is aimed at making sure doctors look after their own health, as well as that of their patients.

Tasmanian paramedic Dave has been following the war in Ukraine — now he and a colleague will go to the front line, hoping to make a difference.

Frontline emergency workers have accused one of Victoria's busiest hospitals of not meeting legally-mandated nurse-to-patient ratios, which they claim is putting the sickest patients at risk.

Too many women are leaving mental health units in a worse condition than when they arrived, with some in mixed-gender wards reporting shocking treatment that has left them reluctant to seek further care.

Deformities, nerve damage, psychological trauma, loss of function of limbs. It's quite the list of allegations in what is shaping up as one of Australia's biggest-ever cosmetic surgery class actions, writes Adele Ferguson. 

Spring Ridge hasn't had a doctor for 30 years, but that all changed when a local farmer met a pharmacist.

Children are taking part in a program designed to reduce their risk of ending up in WA's largest critical care facility.

Despite constant headlines about general practice being in crisis, research shows one area is shining brightly. So what can we learn from Aboriginal-run health services?

On the front lines of Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine, soldiers are facing a brutal onslaught. It's up to a volunteer team of medics, the Hospitallers Battalion, to evacuate the wounded back to safety in a race against the clock.

On a normal day, Aniello Iannuzzi says, he meets up to 50 patients at his western NSW clinic but by the end of the month his workload is set to triple due to a shortage of GPs.

Hairdressers, barbers, and beauticians often find themselves wearing multiple hats, but now they're the unexpected heroes in the fight against cancer.

Gabrielle Keating was heading to the bush for a six-week placement. Four years later, she can't imagine living anywhere else and calls on other young doctors to make the move.

Reports of mould, asbestos and bug infestations have prompted a SafeWork SA review of Adelaide's Pregnancy Advisory Centre.