Laura Heffernan Nurse Death – Former Epworth Richmond Neurosurgeon Greg Malham’s Partner Laura Heffernan Dies By Suicide. Sadly Laura passed away unexpectedly leaving behind family and friends with only memories of the life he lived. Hefferna untimely death has left those closest to him grieving a loss that words can hardly capture.
The vision of a surgeon smashing Kooyong independent Monique Ryan’s election sign into a rubbish skip and saying “always gotta bury the body” went viral in a week when multiple women were allegedly murdered by men. But for many of the former colleagues and others who spoke to Four Corners for our investigation into this man, the video was telling — not just about his attitudes about women, but also the position he occupied as a surgeon at the apex of the private hospital world.
A surgeon who left behind uncomfortable nurses, crying radiographers, patients who thought him like an egotistical character out of Mad Men, and a devastated, grieving family. Greg Malham was a renowned neurosurgeon at Epworth ― Melbourne’s largest private hospital.
When the corflute story broke in Melbourne’s The Age newspaper, Epworth’s CEO, Andrew Stripp, issued an unusually robust statement to staff, saying the hospital was “deeply concerned by the unacceptable behaviour displayed by the surgeon” and he personally found the content of the video “abhorrent”.
Within weeks, Mr Malham resigned from the hospital.