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Doctor who asked patient for sex had been warned
A Melbourne doctor who asked a patient for sex while offering to help her get a disability pension was twice warned specifically not to cross professional boundaries with patients.
Rania is a health reporter at The Age.
A Melbourne doctor who asked a patient for sex while offering to help her get a disability pension was twice warned specifically not to cross professional boundaries with patients.
There have been another 231 reports of Ross River virus infections in a week as the outbreak that has already caused some Victorians months of pain and fatigue continues to grow.
Victorians struck by the Ross River virus outbreak - including a doctor who says he was infected by a mosquito in Melbourne's northeast - have described how debilitating symptoms are interfering with their lives.
Patients are languishing in emergency departments, they're faced with ever growing elective surgery waits, and hospital bed numbers aren't keeping apace with the population, an AMA report has found.
An outbreak of the potentially debilitating Ross River Virus in Victoria has continued to worsen with another 150 people inflected.
The outlook has improved for one badly injured survivor of the Bourke Street tragedy, who has been in a critical condition in hospital for nearly a month.
Four months after the Disney princesses were torn down from the walls and the twin cots were packed away unused, Janine and Denis Guingan are still agonising over the terrible question: could their baby daughters have been saved?
Dodgy health providers can now be named, shamed and banned in Victoria by a new complaints watchdog with bolstered powers that extend to unregistered practitioners and rogues who previously skirted regulators.
Handing down findings into the 2011 death of baby Emma Folwell Kuno, the coroner found problems with communication and collaboration between medical staff, leading up to the birth.
A ninth person has died from the freak thunderstorm asthma event in Melbourne last year.
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