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health
Essays & reportage
Good ways to break bad news
Jacinta Halloran
29 April 2009
Feeling responsible for a patient’s illness makes it harder for a doctor to give bad news empathetically
Correspondents
The enabling state
Frank Bongiorno
3 April 2009
Attitudes to people with disabilities are changing in Britain, but the progress is uneven, writes
Frank Bongiorno
in London
National affairs
Risky research
Hannah Dahlen & Sally Tracy
18 March 2009
Private hospitals are safer than public hospitals for mothers and newborn babies, according to a study that made headlines last month. But there was less coverage when clinicians…
National affairs
Is the media part of the Aboriginal health problem, and part of the solution?
Melissa Sweet
3 March 2009
Is the media stopping us from seeing the real problems and doing something about them, asks
Melissa Sweet
Books & arts
Bureaucracy’s bleeding northern heart
Ian Anderson
20 January 2009
Ian Anderson
reviews Tess Lea’s innovative
Bureaucrats and Bleeding Hearts
National affairs
What Hippocrates can learn from Epicurus
Jennifer Doggett
3 December 2008
Although Labor’s SuperClinics make policy sense, resistance from doctors has slowed their implementation, writes
Jennifer Doggett
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