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'Great sense of guilt': Crippling cost of treatment forces eating disorder patients into debt
Braiden Fitzsimmons couldn’t shake the feeling he had become a burden to his parents as they paid for his weekly sessions with a psychologist.
- by Kate Aubusson
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Health
Family say they've been put at risk after flu discharge
A Macgregor family wants more to be done to stop the spread of flu this year.
- by Daniella White
Health
People urged to get flu jab as cases outstrip 2017's horror year
More than 400 people have been hospitalised with the flu in Queensland already this year.
- by Felicity Caldwell
Editorial
Ambulance
Assaults on paramedics an unacceptable workplace hazard
Ambos have been subject to biting, punches and being thrown across the room.
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Ambulance
Bitten, punched and thrown: Assaults on ambos skyrocket
Ambos arrived to treat a man with a suspected heart attack. Four minutes later, it was like a hellish scene from the "zombie apocalypse".
- by Julie Power
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Education
Budget boost to expand speech pathologists, health checks in schools
Education will be a major focus of this week’s state budget, which will include a $65.5 million package for health and wellbeing initiatives in schools.
- by Henrietta Cook
Education
Parents say immunisation rates a major factor in choosing a school
When Jac Taylor began the hunt for a school for her daughter, she was shocked to find vaccination rates well below the national average at many Sydney schools.
- by Pallavi Singhal
Hospitals
Hospital parking stress in Brisbane's north to ease
The state government will borrow money to build a multi-storey car park at a Brisbane hospital, and car park fees will be used to pay back the loan.
- by Ruth McCosker
Healthcare
Healthcare 'not befitting of nation's capital': opposition
Mothers have told of the impact of overcrowding at Centenary Hospital for Women and Children after staff spoke of their concern for patients' safety.
- by Daniella White
Courts
Doctor's 'significant error of judgment' in performing surgery on obese woman: Coroner
Within three months of the gastic balloon surgery, Margaret Pegum died of sepsis caused by a hole in her stomach.
Health
Maternity staff at breaking point: 'Patient safety can't be guaranteed'
Senior staff at Centenary Hospital say babies and mothers are at risk due to overcrowding within the maternity unit.
- by Daniella White