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Outdoors comes inside for patients

Cancer survivor Lucy Bennett raised $10,000 for picture panels in Auckland Hospital's radiation department, making treatment a little more bearable.

Boy still critical after BOP smash

Man jailed for attacking nurses

Meads face spinal op

Two more deaths but swine flu cases fall

Success: Surgical strategy wins overseas buyers

Christchurch company that make tools for surgeons is exporting almost everything it makes.

Just the man to get things moving

Doctor? It's a big job when you're only 4

Four-year-old Samantha Hook was offered a fellowship in arthroplasty at North Shore Hospital. Shades of Doogie Howser?

Patient cleared after Antarctic dash

Ice evacuation succeeds

Patient in hospital for allergy gets neck broken

A patient went into hospital with an allergy and left with broken neck.

Ignorance on strokes causing needless deaths, says expert

'Shoddy' hospital accused over death

A 37-year-old man had a fatal heart attack after appendix surgery at North Shore Hospital, and his angry family are demanding answers about his treatment and death.

Hospitals fearful of doctors' strikes

Hospital leaders are braced to hear today if resident medical officers will join the wave of strikes disrupting health services.

'Critical' doctor shortage at Starship Hospital

Starship patients are being put at risk due to a shortage of staff, the union representing doctors says.

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