by Brooke Falvey
This week is DonateLife Week and, to mark the occasion, I signed up to be an organ donor. DonateLife Week (Sunday 24 February—Sunday 3 March) is Australia’s national awareness week to promote organ and tissue donation. There are around 1600 Australians waiting for an organ transplant. Sadly, many of them will die while they wait […]
MoreToday, in less than 10 minutes, I saved three lives. I can almost hear you gasp and wonder who was crazy enough to let me—the girl who barely passed high school biology—loose near patients (I work in the marketing department of a not-for-profit hospital). Fear not! I am not about to hit the headlines as the latest untrained quack to […]
More{Trigger warning: This article contains information about suicide which may be upsetting to some people.} According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, approximately six people suicide in Australia every day. That equates to one death every four hours. Six people who have families that love them; friends who will miss them. Lifeline report that for every completed suicide […]
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