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Health Law & Medical Negligence
Specialist Opinion Cure for Significant Delay in Extension Application
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Extension of limitation period denied, in favour of Doctor
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Confused about COVID-19 Lockdown Laws?
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Doctor disqualified for poor medical practice, not maintaining appropriate boundaries and sexualised behavior
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Euthanasia drugs characterised as ‘palliative care’ rather than ‘end-of-life treatment’
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Eight year old loses thumb after delay in medical treatment
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Doctor struck off for prescribing steroids
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Obstetrician/gynaecologist drinks alcohol while on call
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Blurred lines: When does a medico-legal report serve as medical treatment, if ever?
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Special Medical Procedures – when is treatment authorisation required? A look at the test through the lens of gender dysphoria
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When ‘Conservative Treatment’ isn’t enough: recognising and responding to clinical deterioration
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Adequate Warning? Surgeon found not liable for failure to warn in elective surgery
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Pain management regimes and opiate toxicity – a fine line
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Time for Change? A look at Queensland’s abortion laws
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Doctor found liable for professional misconduct in accessing wife’s medical records
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Child dies after home birth: the importance of educating parents on the risks of non-hospital births
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Medical practitioner struck off for providing misleading and dishonest expert evidence
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Mother left to die after home birth: the importance of regulation of private practicing midwives in home settings
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Newcastle Private Hospital – Found to be negligent for failing to adhere to post-operativeclinical pathway
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Obtaining consent from non-English speaking patients
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Peer accepted practice: a Courts consideration of the term ‘widely accepted practice’
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Medical Malpractice & Health Law News May 2016
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A review of the Coroner’s Inquest into the deaths of patients of the Alma Street Centre (Ref No: 15/15)
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Restrictions relating to chiropractic advertising
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Guidelines for medical practitioners performing cosmetic medical and surgical procedures
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Director Clinical Services, Child and Adolescent Health Services and Kiszko & Anor [2016] FCWA 19
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Central Queensland Hospital and Health Service v Q [2016] QSC 89
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Jacqueline Lee Freestone v Murrumbidgee Local Health District [2016] NSWDC 53
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HBA Legal Medico-Legal Newsletter February 2016
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Nitschke v Medical Board of Australia [2015] NTSC 39 – Medical practitioners and voluntary euthanasia
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Chaudhry v Medical Board of Australia [2015] QCAT 414 – Tribunal’s discretion on costs
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Eastbury v Genea Limited (Formerly Known As Sydney Ivf Limited) [2015] NSWSC 1834 – Importance of good communication
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Waller v James [2015] NSWCA 232 – Patients right to plan their reproductive future
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Inquest into the death of Maria Dolores Coleiro – When human error causes the death of not-for-resuscitation patients
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Hospital v T [2015] QSC 185 – Consent and firmly held religious beliefs
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Ping Yuan v Da Yong Chen [2015] NSWSC 932 – Consent after death
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White v Johnston [2015] NSWCA 18
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AME Hospitals v Dixon (by her next friend Dixon) [2015] WASCA 63
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El-Masri v Molloy [2015] sascfc 63
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Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board (Scotland) [2015] UKSC 11
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Mules v Ferguson [2015] QCA 5
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Wolverson v Todman; Wolverson v Lisle and Hooper and Ors [2015] QCA 74
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Paul v Cooke 2013 NSWCA 311 (19 September 2013)
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Barr v Farrell [2013] WASCA 211 (10 September 2013)
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Coote v Kelly [2013] NSWCA 357 (28 October 2013)
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King v Western Sydney Local Health Network [2013] NSWCA 162 (14 June 2013)
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McKenna v Hunter & New England Local Health District [2013] NSWCA 476 (23 December 2013)
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Molloy v El Masri 2014 SADC 53 (4 April 2014)
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Odisho v Bonazzi 2014 VSCA 11 (18 February 2014)
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Wallace v Kam [2013] HCA 19
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Waller v James [2013] NSWSC 497 (6 May 2013)
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Hunter and New England Local Health District v Simon [2014] HCA 44
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Janet Harris v Sydney Local Health District (No. 2) [2014] NSWDC 41
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Mules v Ferguson [2014] QSC 51
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Neville v Lam (No 3) [2014] NSWSC 607
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Patterson v Khalsa [2013] NSWSC 1331
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Rasmussen v South Western Sydney Local Health District [2013] NSWSC 656
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Coroner’s findings into death of Mark Raymond Parsell COR 2008/3291
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Dekker v Medical Board of Australia [2014] WASCA 216
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Espinos v Chong [2013] WADC 174 (8 November 2013)
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