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Dr Melanie Jansen is a paediatric ICU specialist and poet based in Brisbane.

An ICU doctor turned her hand to writing poems. Readers can’t stop crying

Dr Melanie Jansen meets parents on the worst day of their lives. She has found an unusual way of coping with the stress. 

  • Nick Dent

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Angus Thomson with his surgeon Kate Drummond plus a scan of his brain.

I invited my brain surgeon to lunch. Here’s what happened

Kate Drummond removed a piece of my brain. That might be the least interesting thing about her.

  • Angus Thomson
The median time from arrival to leaving NSW emergency departments was 3 hours and 54 minutes, the highest since 2010.

Bed block, wait times, bottlenecks: Sydney’s best and worst hospitals revealed

Patients spent longer in NSW emergency departments than at any point since 2010. See how your hospital stacks up.

  • Angus Thomson
Dr Phoebe Holdenson Kimura, medical advisor to the Australian Commission of Safety and Quality in Health Care, at her GP clinic in Hornsby.

The medical procedure some patients are having too often and others aren’t having enough

Australians at risk of bowel cancer in some of the poorest communities are missing out on procedures to diagnose the condition, while people in affluent areas are coming back too soon.

  • Kate Aubusson
Dr Mohammad Salah Uddin Sharier, who owns the Gentle Procedures Clinic in Revesby.

‘A cluster of failures’: Sydney GP gave newborn high-strength opioid instead of Panadol

The six-day-old boy was rushed to hospital and given overdose medication after the mistake, which has left Dr Mohammad Sharier with a six-month ban.

  • Angus Thomson
Composite artwork for Angus Thomson story on interventional radiology at Westmead Hospital. Text is an excerpt of a letter from Eastwood GP Fiona Dennison to Health Minister Ryan Park. 

High radiation, broken machines: Crucial Sydney hospital service facing collapse

Doctors and patients have urged the NSW health minister to intervene in the latest mass resignation to hit the state’s public health system.

  • Angus Thomson
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Sydney hospital boss departs after cancer diagnosis delays revealed

The shock announcement came just hours before doctors were due to move a vote of no confidence in his handling of a backlog of patients waiting for diagnostic procedures.

  • Angus Thomson and Kate Aubusson
Two cases of delayed cancer diagnosis reported to Westmead Hospital management.

‘Not manageable’: Patients waiting up to a year for cancer diagnoses at Sydney hospital

A woman diagnosed with stage 4 colorectal cancer after 363 days is among dozens of cases which have led doctors at one of Sydney’s biggest hospitals to sound the alarm.

  • Angus Thomson
Composite image for Westmead Hospital story.

Sydney’s EDs face record demand. Here’s where patients wait the longest

Staff at Sydney’s busiest hospital say a lack of space is leaving some patients stuck in emergency for days, four years after a $900 million spend on more beds.

  • Angus Thomson
Westmead Hospital has a backlog of up to 3000 unreported MRI and other imaging scans.

Backlog of thousands of MRI scans threatens missed diagnoses

Up to 3000 MRI scans at Westmead Hospital are waiting up to two months to be processed, putting patients at risk of diagnosis and treatment delays.

  • Kate Aubusson