Article Types
Reflections
Why patients should be part of medical training from day one
Doctors need not wait until they get sick to understand what it is like on the other side
Benjamin D Bravery
James Parkinson’s Essay on the shaking palsy, 1817–2017
Commemorating the 200th anniversary of the first specific description of parkinsonism
Nadeem Toodayan
Invisible injuries: patient harms we hear about when we take the time to ask
Adverse event-free care or complaint-free care does not necessarily mean harm-free care for our patients
Rosemary Aldrich
Life after sport: swimming through transitions
Developing athletes’ life skills to help them with the transition to life after sport
Rachel A Harris
Neville Wran’s voice: how the Premier’s Teflon-coated vocal cords came unstuck
His gravelly voice became one of the successful politician’s most defining features
Evangelos Tseros · Faruque Riffat · Carsten E Palme · Hedley G Coleman · Narinder P Singh
Leadership lessons
Clinicians can bring to leadership a deep understanding of patients’ needs and the expertise to make a real difference
Lynne McKinlay
Winhanga-duri-nya (to reflect)
A bridge between Indigenous knowledge and peer-reviewed knowledge needs to be better built
Michelle Bovill
The clinical history
Carefully constructed clinical histories underlie successful patient-centred consultations
David B Williams
The aftermath of loss
Why had we all chosen specialties that walk hand in hand with the spectre of death — at once fighting and accepting its inevitability?
Catriona McNeil
Walking a mile in their shoes: reflections on being an international medical graduate
A comprehensive orientation process is essential in assisting international doctors to adjust to life in a new country
Jennifer A May
The medical coalface of the heroin epidemic
It’s time for Victoria to follow the lead of New South Wales and establish a supervised injecting facility
Ines M Rio · Jonathan Epstein
Coronary occlusion, denial and dissociation
A doctor puts emotions aside in an emergency, but dissociation does not help when the illness is in the family
Ruth A Stewart
Understanding the language of intensive care physicians
The surgical critical care handbook. Guidelines for care of the surgical patient in the ICU
Richard C Turner
Bill Williams
22 September 1958, Geelong - 12 September 2016, Torquay
Tilman A Ruff · Jim S Rossiter
The Roman fever: observations on the understanding of malaria in the ancient Roman world
Ancient Roman hypotheses about the transmission of malaria were ahead of their time
Milton J Micallef
Health care in late Qing Dynasty and Republican China: Western influences, Chinese solutions
Providing health care to the populous but poor nation has required flexibility and determination
Neville D Yeomans
The development of vascular surgery in Brisbane: some reminiscences
A former senior vascular surgeon remembers the progress of his specialty in Brisbane
H Reginald Magee
A medical student’s first experience of theatre
Disrupting the neat choreography and ?nding my part in it
Emily K Hartman
Voluntary euthanasia laws in Australia: are we really better off dead?
Ethical and moral implications make euthanasia a complex question
Briony J Murphy
