Page 18 - Tim Mitchell News Today

Summer extremes this year could include days where temperatures climb to 40°C, Niwa forecasters say. Despite increased variability, hot, dry...

She was vilified as the worst mother on the planet when more than a decade ago, her book Battle Hymn Of The Tiger Mother, laid out in detail Amy Chuas ultra-hardline parenting methods.

While strong, damaging wind threatens this weekend, next week could be over 30C in places.

Those who lived through the 2017 Waimārama wildfires have advice for the dry summer.

Lynchburg’s largest capital improvement project to date, the Blackwater Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) tunnel, will be a nearly one-mile-long, 12-foot-diameter pipe, following the Blackwater Creek from near Hollins Mill Park to what will be a new pump station across 7th Street downtown. It is estimated to cost around $100 million.

The president of the Royal College of Surgeons of England has apologised for “gaslighting” female surgeons in comments he made about their clinical outcomes. Speaking on 14 September at a conference entitled Building Surgeons, Breaking Barriers,1 Tim Mitchell said that he was “deeply sorry” for causing “a great deal of upset” in comments he had made about two academic papers on the surgical outcomes of female surgeons, which were published in JAMA Surgery last month. Both papers show...

Dr Peter Hiltons comments sparked outrage among female NHS surgeons including Roshana Mehdian-Staffel (pictured), who detailed her own incidents of being harassed by colleagues.

Most women surgeons in England’s public hospitals have experienced sexual harrassment, while many say they have been assaulted and some even raped.

Women NHS surgeons revealed yesterday that they have suffered a torrent of sexual assaults by colleagues in the workplace - including one man who wiped his sweaty brow on their breasts.

Philippa Jackson, a consultant plastic surgeon from Bristol, was discussing a patient with a male colleague when he moved in to give her a hug. “He made some no