STOP PRESS 6th April 2020 Coronavirus Because of the latest Coronavirus crisis I have decided that you should not be sitting in a laboratory waiting room for two hours as I think this will present an unacceptable risk in these troubling times. We have just received guidance from Queensland Health (I know) and the following […]
One of my patients – very gently – chastised me today for not providing a recent Coronavirus update. She knows who she is. Anyway, here goes. I have some good news, some bad news and some retractions. The Good News We have been drilling. Man, have we been drilling? We are so well drilled we […]
Things are moving very quickly, not just at national and state levels but on the Randwick Hospitals Campus. Both Prince of Wales Private Hospital (POWP) and The Royal Hospital for Women (RHW) are gearing up for this crisis rapidly. As I said in my previous update, it appears that the significant majority of pregnant women […]
Things are moving fast. As you know I am a member of a number of professional bodies and my favourite (I really am an anglophile) is the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in London (The RCOG). Just overnight The RCOG have published their latest Guidelines on Coronavirus and pregnancy. You can find this document […]
Clearly (especially as Peter Dutton is infected and Scott Morrison didn’t go to the Footy after all) the Coronavirus situation is deteriorating. While health authorities are providing good information, I do not believe they are acting quickly enough to reduce the risks of Coronavirus in hospitals. In particular I believe all elective surgery should be […]
Right now very little is known about Coronavirus and, more particularly, its effect on pregnant women and their babies (both unborn and newborn). However I thought it important to share what is currently known even though this information may change shortly. If it does I will keep you updated. This information sheet is based upon […]
When I ask my new patients if they have any questions for me, the most common one is this: “How much is this going to cost me?” (just kidding, my fees are on my website) …closely followed by: “What’s the process from here?” I’ve tried to figure out the best way of describing the pregnancy […]
CMV – a member of the Herpes Virus family – can cause infection in unborn babies. It affects 0.5 to 2 per cent of all pregnancies. Now that we give women information about avoiding listeria and toxoplasma and most pregnant women are immune to rubella (German measles) and varicella (chickenpox), CMV is the most common […]
This drug is a category A antacid that we commonly use in pregnancy While it definitely does not harm unborn babies all currently available preparations of Zantac have been withdrawn from sale worldwide because of the possibility that some of them might contain an additive that is carcinogenic. There is no need for alarm or […]
Unfortunately I have had to increase the fees for my obstetric services. You can find my new fee schedule in the Services section of my website. Believe it or not this is a decision I do not take lightly. I am only too well aware of the cost of private medical services in Australia along […]
