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Melissa Cunningham

Reporter · AU

Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Oct 1, 2026
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Jul 4, 2026

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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Melissa Cunningham

    ‘System is in crisis’: Thousands of doctors to walk off the job over safety fears (opens the original)

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    Thousands of doctors from the state’s major hospitals will walk off the job on Thursday afternoon as part of their ongoing dispute with the government over pay and working conditions. Doctors will gather outside Parliament House in Melbourne to call for improvements to their working conditions including, a 30 per cent pay rise over four years, a cap of 12½ hours on shifts, paid overtime, and a guarantee of three consecutive days off during a fortnight of work. The four-hour industrial action fol

  2. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Melissa Cunningham

    Dov was surrounded by doctors when he had a mental breakdown. None of them helped (opens the original)

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    You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. It was at the end of his second year of medical school that Dr Dov Degen became convinced he was the incarnation of Jesus. Frantically writing a manuscript and barely sleeping, he wandered the streets at night, wide-eyed and flooded with thoughts about how to better mankind. “I just wanted to help everyone,” the award-winning nephrologist and general physician says. “I had this idea of bringing a

  3. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Melissa Cunningham

    Closed theatres, empty beds: The problems plaguing Melbourne’s new $1.5b hospital (opens the original)

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    People requiring emergency surgery at the new $1.5 billion Footscray Hospital are waiting days for treatment, with doctors warning funding and staffing shortages have left operating theatres closed, beds unopened and a diagnostic scanner sitting idle. More than six months after the long-awaited hospital in Melbourne’s west opened, doctors say some patients needing urgent procedures are waiting up to 72 hours as demand for emergency care soars and staff are unable to open about 170 beds across th

  4. Article · Sep 22, 2026 · Melissa Cunningham

    Twenty new emergency beds left empty at RCH due to staffing shortage: leaked email (opens the original)

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    Twenty new emergency beds at the Royal Children’s Hospital will be left empty when a long-awaited multimillion-dollar redevelopment is completed in November, because the health service lacks the staff to use them, a damning leaked internal email reveals. In a scathing memo sent to senior staff this month, the hospital’s director of emergency medicine, Dr Stuart Lewena, accused the state government of turning down a desperate funding request for more frontline doctors and nurses to be able to ope

  5. Article · Sep 16, 2026 · Melissa Cunningham

    ‘It was crippling’: New endometriosis plan aims to save women from years of agony (opens the original)

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    Lilia Tennant still remembers being curled up on the floor of a store on Chapel Street with agonising abdominal pain. Tennant was 13, shopping with their mother, and days away from getting their first period. “It was pretty crazy, I literally fell to the floor the pain was so bad,” the now 22-year-old said. “It was a sign of what was to come.” It would take more than six years for doctors to finally diagnose Tennant with endometriosis, a chronic, inflammatory condition in which tissue similar to

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