Article Types
Reflections
Can a medical researcher have too many publications?
It is not plausible that a researcher could author 50 or more publications a year and still adhere to the NHMRC authorship criteria
Anthony F Jorm PhD, DSc
You are not Robinson Crusoe
A huge undertaking, but is it about improving outcomes or cutting costs?
John B Best AO, MD BS, PhD, DSc(Hon)
Dealing with death
Death rules: how death shapes life on earth and what it means for us
Robin H Mortimer FRACP, FACP, FRCP
Negotiating the complex maze of claims of dietary cures for cancer
How can we help our patients make sensible decisions?
Ian E Haines MB BS, FRACP, FAChPM
Can I jump puddles alone?
Caring is a basic tenet of our society
John B Best AO, MD BS, PhD, DSc(Hon)
I’m an alien, I’m a legal alien; I’m a French doctor in New South Wales!
Migrating is a daunting but fascinating experience
Lionel I Reyftmann FRANZCOG
Remembering a fallen giant
Honouring the life and sacrifice of a young RAAF doctor
Andrew Burke MB BS, FRACP, DTMH
Medicine in a Roman city
The excavated city of Pompeii provides insight into medicine in first century CE Roman life
Peter R Mayall MA, FRCOG, FRANZCOG
A French naval surgeon's account of disease, treatments and hospitals in colonial Sydney, 1873
Early Australian environmental, social and public health conditions observed by a French “man of science”
Simon Barraclough BA(Hons), MA, PhD · Arnaud Gallois BA(Hons), DipEd
Ronald Lawrie Huckstep CMG, MD, FRCS, FRACS
Ron Huckstep was known around the world for his work in orthopaedics, trauma and polio
Jeremy Chapman MD, FRACP, FRCP
The Sick Room
Here he is, entering though still, a painting hung in the doorway
Heather Taylor Johnson
Muslim doctors in the mainstream
The challenge of multiculturalism is for the community to recognise, appreciate and accommodate cultural differences
John B Best AO, MD BS, PhD, DSc(Hon)
The pouch of Douglas
Cells multiply like rabbits … One woman’s personal experience of cancer
Tracy Sorensen MCA
John Lachlan Gollan MB BS, MD, PhD, FRACP, FRCP, FACP
John Gollan was a world expert in liver diseases
John C H Morris AO, MBE, FRACP
A maple leaf among the gum trees
Longer training isn’t necessarily better training
John B Best AO, MD BS, PhD, DSc(Hon)
ANIMAL STANCE: after Rosanna Warren
Liv Mammone MFA(Poetry)
Fresh for 24 hours
The Halloween design made me choose it: cantaloupe pumpkins pineapple haystacks, coconut ghosts — an edible bouquet. Guaranteed fresh for 24 hours, the ad boasted just right for the afternoon shift in the delivery room at the far end of the hall, late night nurses who whispered, knowing how quietly labor would end the morning shift who cried. No rush leaving. Flowers wouldn't do. Fruit a perfect gift, so ripe juice bursting with each bite like a promise
Jennifer Campbell MA
The whole 9 years
Ian Olver considers his time at Cancer Council Australia and suggests embracing cancer treatment, prevention and research provides a comprehensive cancer control experience
Ian N Olver MB BS, MD, PhD
