Volume 211 Issue 11

The lack of national policy means that Australia remains at significant risk of declines in health due to climate change — substantial and sustained national action is urgently required

Paul J Beggs · Ying Zhang · Hilary Bambrick · Helen L Berry · Martina K Linnenluecke · Stefan Trueck · Peng Bi · Sinead M Boylan · Donna Green · Yuming Guo · Ivan C Hanigan · Fay H Johnston · Diana L Madden · Arunima Malik · Geoffrey G Morgan · Sarah Perkins‐Kirkpatrick · Lucie Rychetnik · Mark Stevenson · Nick Watts · Anthony G Capon

Antivenom dosage for Australian elapid envenoming should be decided by clinical evaluation of individual patients

Scott A Weinstein · Peter J Mirtschin · Julian White

Unlocking the potential of health data to improve patient outcomes requires the integration of research, health care and education

Helena J Teede · Alison Johnson · Jim Buttery · Cheryl A Jones · Douglas IR Boyle · Garry LR Jennings · Tim Shaw

Physicians share a collective responsibility to support their peers in the help-seeking process

Margaret P Kay · Victoria Dawes

A 23-year-old Indigenous woman from Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, presented with a 2- day history of fever, arthralgia and headache

Leon Caly · Natalie Davidson · Ram Ghimire · Brinthan Rajaratnam · Jonathan Marrow · Rob Baird · Ella M Meumann · Julian Druce

A 63- year- old woman developed chills, vomiting and diarrhoea the day after returning from 2 months’ travel in South East Europe

Naomi CA Whyler · Jasmine C Teng · David J Brewster · Ruth Chin · Ian Cox · Julian Druce · Henry M Prince · David A Sheffield · Eugene Teh · Vineet Sarode

A 19th century explorer and a 20th century surveyor each suffered blinding ophthalmia during their outback travels and took the most unusual step of naming outback places after their afflictions

D Ashley R Watson

Lessons from both sides of the Pacific on how to approach struggling junior doctors

Juan N Lessing · Sheila Bryan · Christina Johnson · Janita Keating · Jeannette Guerrasio

The reason I was not finding great satisfaction was that I was searching in all the wrong places

Zhenghong Liu

Christmas is known for festive decorations

Paul Heyworth · Ryan Shulman

Tempering pre-submission expectations and mastering the Coping and reLaxing Mechanisms of senior colleagues are important for junior researchers

Hui‐Chen Han · Anoop Ninan Koshy · Tina Lin · Matias Yudi · David Clark · Andrew W Teh · Omar Farouque

Hospitals need to actively identify unconscious bias to achieve equitable workplaces

Laura RE Chapman · Sara Mellow · Hannah Coombridge

Given the significant risks from Mary’s suboptimal obstetric care, it seems to be a lesser miracle of Christmas that Mary and Jesus both survived the famous birth

Ashray Rajagopalan · Ellen Rajagopalan

Sir Roderick David Stewart’s proposition of 1978 is called into doubt

Dennis Zetner · Jesper Ryg · Kristoffer Andresen · Anders Schack · Rasmus Alder · Jacob Rosenberg

Efforts to reduce the probability of disease transmission by Santa Claus can mitigate his impact on public health

Yuki Furuse

Unsurprisingly, Dr Arthur Conan Doyle included numerous medical allusions in his stories and novels

Jan D Kampmann

Some ideas on repurposing medical equipment to set you on a creative journey to save the planet

R John Massie

Updated 2 December 2019

Cate Swannell