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“Dr Barker is the nicest man I have ever met,” says Carol Wardell, who was selected for the Access Program in 2019. “He said to me: ‘at your age why wouldn’t you want to look good!’” Wardell has had operations thr...

Surgeons at Macquarie University Hospital who operate in pairs say that the model brings immense benefits to patients having complex procedures. While Medicare recognises a surgeon having an assistant operator, it doesn’t recognise a model where two...

The multidisciplinary Healthy Weight Clinic team includes specialist endocrinologists, dietitians, exercise physiologists, physiotherapists, psychologists, bariatric surgeons and sleep medicine experts. And they are all dedicated to helping patients achie...

In 2015, Sharne Willoughby had liposuction at MQ Health for lymphoedema, which had become so debilitating she could barely climb stairs. In the years since then, she has run five half-marathons and is living a normal and busy family life. “There are...