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Nicholas Wilcken

Nicholas Wilcken

Nicholas Wilcken is a Sydney-based oncologist.

Women’s health is a tricky issue.

Doctors don’t hate women, but we can be idiots when it comes to their health

Just don’t call it medical misogyny. I’m not a misogynist. But it’s fair to say that medicine doesn’t understand women as well as it should.

  • Nicholas Wilcken

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Maria Cummins with son Pat and daughters Laura and Kara.

Farewell Maria Cummins, my champion patient and friend

I was Maria Cummins’ oncologist for 16 years. She taught me so much about grace under pressure and bravery in the face of crisis.

  • Nicholas Wilcken
Constant vigilance for hospital staff.

The heartbreaking choices we must make to juggle hospital resources for COVID

A cancer specialist who has run a COVID ward describes the challenges on the pandemic frontline.

  • Nicholas Wilcken
Some of Sydney’s COVID wards have shut - for now.

‘These are really sick people’: My week working on a Sydney COVID ward

The virus is abating - for now. But last month, it was all hands to the pump at my hospital.

  • Nicholas Wilcken