Reflections

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James B Roche OAM, FRCOG, FRACOG

Vladimir Lovric was a pioneering haematologist

Michelle Lovric

The health gap: the challenge of an unequal world, by Michael Marmot

Jackie M Street PhD, BSc(Hons), GradDipPrimaryHealthCare

Functional disorders and medically unexplained symptoms: assessment and treatment, Per Fink and Marianne Rosendal, editors

Catherine Yelland MB BS, FRACP

I was in the City of Bridges, always nervous

Shaindel Beers

A tooth that’s not a tooth

Katie Herman MFA in Creative Writing

Priscilla Kincaid-Smith (1926–2015) was a towering figure in Australian and international medicine

Judith Whitworth AC, FTSE, FRACP

Barcoo Rot, sperm that untie a knot and other medical tales from the back o’ Bourke and beyond

Charles S Guest MB BS, PhD, FAFPHM

Turfed to eternity was how we euphemized

Jan Steckel MD

We should not have to wait for Armistice Day 2018 for the obsession of wreath laying to end and for this country to get leaders genuinely willing to change their blue ties

John B Best AO, MD BS, PhD, DSc(Hon)

One of Australia’s pioneer woman doctors may also become its second saint

Jacqueline Healy BA, MBA, PhD · Robyn Fahy BA, GCertMgmt, DipMaritimeStud

Puzzle me this indiscretion (I cannot feign indifference) …

Nicolas Lenskyj BSc, MB BS, MA

An approach which enjoins public health programs and clinicians in the four components of the food security equation is potentially gainful in addressing malnutrition; namely, the adequacy, availability, utilisation and security/sustainability of food supplies

Costa S Boyages BA(Hons), LLB, MB BS

At the hospital, we are so far downstream that we are practically out to sea. Essentially, we patch the kids up, keep them from dying, and make an attempt at educating the child’s parents about what has happened and why

Victoria C Smith BBiomedSc, MB BS (final year student)

Clinicians have often been the “outsiders” in the global health discourse

Georgina A Phillips MB BS, FACEM

In the next paragraph

Marilyn Cavicchia

There is a challenge to systematically work out whether these instruments are therapeutic for people with asthma or other respiratory conditions

John B Best AO, MD BS, PhD, DSc(Hon)

Community development and empowerment serve to address these inequalities experienced by Aboriginal Australians, building cultural connectedness and increasing access to eliminate social, emotional and cultural inequality

Sharnee M Townsend BA

If one wakens and looks about with a sense of wonderment, curiosity and thankfulness, the outlook for the day is good

Alexander K Cohen AO, MD, FRACP, FRCP

It’s a shame about the bright fluorescent light rectangles

Jennie Fraine

The work as a doctor on the RFDS base in Port Hedland is often strenuous but extremely varied

Catarina Widing MD

Nanette Stacy Waddy worked to provide much-needed psychiatric services to the community even into her late 80s

Ian W Webster AO, MD, FRACP, FAChAM · Alex D Wodak FRACP, FAChAM, FAFPHM · Russell Carvolth OAM, BA(Hons)

If, under sterile conditions, using local anaesthesia …

David Francis MD, FRACS

Does anybody remember that 1999 was the International Year of Older Persons?

John B Best AO, MD BS, PhD, DSc(Hon)

Hear it trickle

Michael J Leach