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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
Editorial
Aged-care failings should alarm us all
Unless private providers are properly regulated, people’s wellbeing will be sacrificed in the pursuit of excessive profit.
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
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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