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Dr Gordon signs off after 40 years
“Call Dr Gordon.’’ It’s a familiar instruction that has been voiced by nurses, midwives and doctors at Ipswich Hospital over the past four decades whenever they sought counsel from an experienced obstetrician in times of emergency or pregnancy and birthing complications. The phrase has been uttered...
Queensland first in Type 1 Diabetes management
Joseph ‘Joe’ Marchisella has been living with Type 1 Diabetes for 35 years and today became the first person in Queensland to be fitted with what is essentially an artificial pancreas. Mr Marchisella, who works as a diabetes nurse educator with West Moreton Health in Ipswich, will immediately start...
Health workers head north to help during flooding emergency
West Moreton Health has answered a call for help from their north Queensland colleagues in the wake of the devastating flood event. Social workers, mental health clinicians, environmental health officers and an anaesthetic nurse from West Moreton Health are among the army of Queensland helpers who...