emergency room

Welcome to Ask Doctor Zac, a weekly column from news.com.au. This week, Dr Zac Turner explains why we shouldn’t perform the Heimlich manoeuvre.Question: Hi Dr Zac, In my mother’s group I heard a story of a child choking on their dinner, and…

A 47-year-old man was left in extreme pain and needed surgery after he inserted a waterglass into his rectum.The Nepalese man arrived at the emergency department admitting the object had been inside him for three days.Initially, the man…

Optometrists and pharmacists have pulled a popular eye drop solution off shelves after a rare bacteria found in the product was blamed for the deaths of three people in the United States. According to the Centres for Disease Control and…

The mother of an 11-month-old boy who was filmed with a vape in his mouth has broken her silence — she says she regrets the incident and did not realise she was being filmed at the time.The NSW mum, who was filmed laughing while the little…

Between the beeping of medical devices, opening and closing of doors, ringing of telephones, rolling of meal carts and constant calls on loudspeakers, hospitals are anything but quiet. “It’s a cacophonous amount of noise,” said Dr.…

A Melbourne mum has opened up about how her “bad headache” turned out to be something far more sinister.In September 2021, Lauren Sneddon was struck down with a terrible migraine, so she decided to take it easy and sleep it off. But the…

A Victorian woman copped an almost $2000 ambulance fee despite never stepping inside an ambulance and when she complained, Ambulance Victoria refused to waive the charge – twice.It was one of thousands of complaints made about government…

A young woman was left feeling like a zombie for days after something was slipped into her drink on a night out.Caitie Howarth arrived for a night out in Cairns, North Queensland, with two of her friends on Saturday at 7.30pm.The trio were…

A woman who says she spent more than 14 hours in a Moncton, N.B., emergency room is calling for change to the province’s health-care system, alleging she almost died waiting. Bianca Gallant of Memramcook, N.B., says she still doesn’t…

When Sarah Regan went to change her nine-month-old baby’s nappy she was horrified when she found it filled with blood.Panicking her baby girl Birdie could have a kidney infection, Regan, 38, rushed her daughter to the emergency room, where…