100 Health Ministers later…  still 1 Medical Error Action Group!

Our exposés have featured in all media —

Television

         

AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION 

ABC TV “FOUR CORNERS”

• E.R. Emergency Roulette, Oct 1995 — Mick O’Donnell, reporter
• Hospital Emergency, Sept 1996
• Dead and Buried, July 1998 — Andrew Fowler, reporter
• Adverse Outcomes, Feb 2001
• Killed By Care, July 2006

ABC TV “HEALTH DIMENSIONS”

• Doctor-Patient Communication, Oct 2001

ABC TV “COMPASS”

• A Blaming and Claiming Society, Nov 2001

ABC TV “7.30 REPORT”

• The Danger in Australian Hospitals, March 2002; April, June, Aug 2004
• Australians tell of breast implant ruptures, Jan 2012

ABC TV “LATELINE”

• The Medical Indemnity ‘Crisis’ – A Common Sense Plan To Get Out Of The Whole Mess, April 2002
• Tony Jones talks to Lorraine Long

ABC TV “STATELINE”

• Hospital deaths inquiry inadequate, Nov 2003
• Dead and Buried, Aug 2007
• The week in Bega, Mar 2008

ABC RADIO “THE LAW REPORT”

• Coroners’ Death-Defying Decisions, Oct 2000

ABC RADIO “AUSTRALIA TALKS BACK”

• Medical Indemnity, Dec 2000
• Hospital Safety, Aug 2001

ABC RADIO “AM”

ABC RADIO “PM”

ABC RADIO “THE WORLD TODAY”

Medical mistakes – A silent epidemic in Australian hospitals

NINE TELEVISION NETWORK AUSTRALIA “SUNDAY” investigative affairs

• Death By Bad Medicine, July 1999
• Some Doctors Make You Sick, May 2000
• Medical Secrecy, Oct 2001
• A Hospital’s Secret, Apr 2002
• Tainted Blood, Nov 2002 — Helen Dalley, reporter
• Junkie Doctor, Nov 2003
• Hospitals In Crisis, Feb 2004
• Who Watches the Doctors? Feb 2008 — Ross Coulthart, reporter
• The Butcher of Bega: Australia’s worst medical disaster? Mar 2008 — Ross Coulthart, reporter
• Questions surround the Butcher of Bega over deaths, May 2008 — Ross Coulthart, reporter

NINE TELEVISION NETWORK AUSTRALIA “A CURRENT AFFAIR” current affairs

• Accidental Deaths …Fatal Flaws In Our Hospitals, May, Nov 2000; July 2004; June 2005
• Nambour Hospital Baby Deaths, Aug, Sept 2001
• Queensland Health Rights Commission, Sept 2001
• Drug-Addicted Doctors, March, Apr, June 2006; July 2007
• Hay and Griffith hospital blunders, April 2009
• Many more, lost count..
• What to ask before going to hospital, May 2014
• Elderly patients discarded, March 2017
• Recurring guest…

NINE NETWORK AUSTRALIA “60 MINUTES”

• Condition Critical, Nov 2003
• Outbreak, June 2005

SEVEN NETWORK AUSTRALIA “TODAY TONIGHT”

• Medical fiascos out west, Jan 1998;
• Hospital Disasters, Jan 1998; Apr 2000
• Recurring guest…

GERMAN TV “TAFF PRO7″                              

• Medical Negligence Down Under, Nov 2002

SBS TV AUSTRALIA “INSIGHT”

• Condition Critical, May 2004
• Doctor Accountability, Apr 2008
• State of Emergency, Sept 2009

NETWORK TEN AUSTRALIA “THE PROJECT”

• Sick doctors not good for sick patients, July 2015

Print media features

THE AGE, MELBOURNE

• Death at the Alfred prompts inquiry, June 1994
• Fatal Care: Errors Exposed, Nov Dec 1999; May 2000; Feb 2002 “Insight: Investigations”
• How Our Public Hospitals Hide Their Blunders, Nov 1999
• After Death Comes The Struggle For The Truth, Nov 1999
• When Death Brings Down the Curtain, Nov 1999
• These are the figures the hospitals didn’t want you to see, Nov, Dec 1999; Feb 2002
• The Flaws of Death, Dec 1999
• A Patient Looks for Truth and the Onus of Care, Dec 1999
• It’s a War on Germs, Feb 2000
• Duty of Care Falls Short, Feb 2000
• Super Bug Infects 33 Babies, Feb 2000
• …and countless others

THE HERALD SUN, MELBOURNE

• Grief in bed case, July 1994
• Critical condition, July 1994
• Patients die in the queue, Nov 1994
• Third World Care, Nov 1994
•   …and countless others

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, SYDNEY

• Hospitals In Crisis, 2002 – 2008 running series
•   …and countless others

THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH, SYDNEY

• The Butcher of Bega – Hundreds betrayed by doctor, Feb 2008
• Butcher linked to 15 deaths, May 2008
•   …and countless other

THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

• A quiet nosy activist gets loud – Lorraine Long
• Hospitals doctor records
•    …and countless others

THE AUSTRALIAN

• Fatal asthma case procedure under scrutiny, June 1994
•    …and countless others

THE BULLETIN

• Broken Trust, 17 Aug 2004
• The Abominable Dr Patel, 14 June 2005
• Emergency Call Bad Medicine, 5 Sep 2006
• Emergency Call Response, 12 Sep 2006

READER’S DIGEST

• Jaxson’s Story, July 2005
•   …and a few more

WHO

• Medical Disasters, 13 Nov 1995
• Bitter Pills, 22 Nov 2004
• Bad Medicine, 14 July 2008

AUSTRALIAN DOCTOR

• Collateral Damage, March 2008
• Graeme Reeves: Secrets and Lies, March 2008
• The lay media have described them as an independent health watchdog, but who are the Medical Error Action Group? 28 Mar 2008
• The long way round – Founder of Medical Error Action Group, Lorraine Long, has no beef with doctors, 4 Apr 2008
• Acting Against Error, 4 Apr 2008
• The case of disgraced obstetrician Graeme Reeves has brought a patient lobby group into the media spotlight, 4 Apr 2008
• A decade of campaigning against medical error, 4 Apr 2008

MEDICAL OBSERVER

• Ending the silence, 11 Mar 2008
• NSW Medical Board may face lawsuit, 13 Mar 2008
• Law to force docs to dob in peers, 14 Mar 2008
• Audit of conditional practice ordered, 14 Mar 2008
• Medical standards scrutiny, 20 Mar 2008
• Dr Shame: Who’s to blame, 28 Mar 2008

MADISON

• Heroin, Coke & Dope: The Shocking Reality of Doctors on Drugs, Oct 2006
• Bad Medicine, June 2010
• Butcher of Bega: How his crimes went unnoticed, Aug 2011

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