The recent article published in the Medical Journal of Australia (MJA) dated 26 April 2019, highlighted some concerning comments made by Private Healthcare Australia (PHA), the private health insurance industry’s representative body, about caesarean sections which were performed without medical …
HCCC v Drinkwater; HCCC v Lilly; HCCC v Davies; HCCC v Chan [2019] NSWCATOD 39
Facts
The above case concerned the death of a patient, who took her own life, at the Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at Mater Mental …
The term “Wrongful Birth” in the context of a claim for damages refers to a type of medical negligence claim brought against a doctor, hospital or other health provider for negligent advice and treatment which deprives parents of the choice …
The recent NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal (“NCAT”) decision finding Dr Aamer Sultan guilty of unsatisfactory professional conduct on 7 April 2017 is a timely reminder of a medical practitioners’ duty to maintain professional boundaries with patients.
Dr Sultan was …
I left school when I was 16. Being from a single parent family I was expected to work as soon as I could, so I did a trade at BHP as a fitter and turner. At the end of that …
Accessing Personal Medical Records
In New South Wales the general position is that a health practitioner or organisation is said to own the medical records they create. However, in most cases a person is still able to access their personal …
Our paralegal Lauren Faulkner recently wrote about the entitlement we each have as consumers of health care services to access clinical notes from our doctor or hospital. Lauren also raised the real issues for family/next of kin in obtaining their …
It seems to me a wonderful imperative in a modern socially responsible economy such as Australia to give all would-be parents the opportunity of screening for the numerous rare genetic disorders when planning their families.
My fear however is that …
Australia claims to be a world leader in genetic testing and in the diagnosis of genetic abnormalities in the pre-implantation phase of IVF and the early pre-natal stage. With such touted expertise, we are entitled to expect accuracy in diagnosis, …
Reproductive negligence
More and more people are turning to health care professionals to help plan their families, whether that is to conceive via reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilisation, to allow prospective parents a greater level of control over …