Article Types
Reflections
The parable of Provence
Being the victim of a robbery highlights our inherent helplessness in an inexorably changing world
John B Best AO, MD BS, PhD, DSc(Hon)
Doctors for the Environment Australia: achievements and lessons learned
Political ideology is the greatest obstacle to DEA’s ability to reduce the health hazards of climate change
David J C Shearman MB ChB, PhD, FRACP · William M Castleden MS, FRCS, FRACS
Viennese vibrations: doctors, lungs and opera
Exploring connections between medicine and music in the 18th century
Anna McMichael BMus, MMus · Anthony J McMichael MB BS, PhD, FTSE
Colchicine — a short history of an ancient drug
From poisons and potions to promising new therapies for cardiovascular disease
Nitesh Nerlekar MB BS · Anna Beale MB BS, BMedSci · Richard W Harper MB BS, FRACP, FCSANZ
Riding the buses
Sustaining human engagement after retirement from medical practice
Alexander K Cohen AO, MD, FRACP, FRCP
Remembering Vesalius
This year marks the 500th anniversary of the birth of the founder of modern anatomy
Goran Štrkalj PhD
Meditation on medical practice
The crisis in contemporary medicine and the rise of the reflective physician
Donald Campbell
Medically assisted circumcision: a safer option for initiation rites
Culturally sensitive integration of medical circumcision could avert adverse effects at traditional male initiation rites
Clement Manineng MB BS, BMSc, · David MacLaren BAppSc, MPH, PhD
Let children cry
Better to be good at feelings than to feel good
Jon N Jureidini MB BS, PhD, FRANZCP
Robert James Furlong McInerney
AM, CMG, KCSG, KM, MB BS, FRCS, FRACS, FACS, FRCOG, FRACOG
James B Roche
Living well with multiple sclerosis
Recovering from multiple sclerosis: real life stories of hope and inspiration
Barbara T Hannon
Tossing a Snowball at the tip of the iceberg
Too many licensing authorities, not enough accountability or power to enforce standards
John B Best AO, MD BS, PhD, DSc(Hon)
A simple, novel and accurate method to estimate track record: a new “P” value
How much should past performance contribute to picking winners in grant competitions?
Paul M Pilowsky BM BS, PhD, FAHA
A personal reflection on staff experiences after critical incidents
Patients and families are not the only ones who need support after adverse iatrogenic events
Cameron I Knott MB BS(Hons), FRACP, FCICM
Anthony J McMichael AO, MB BS, PhD
A generous, groundbreaking epidemiologist with a global view
Cate Swannell
Creating agency in Aboriginal health
PAT ANDERSON, chair of the Lowitja Institute, Australia's National Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Research, provides generous praise to the authors of this work for their valuable contribution to research and practice of empowerment in Aboriginal health (http://www.lowitja.org.au/promoting-aboriginal-health-family-wellbeing-empowerment-approach). When you read this text you will find that the praise is well deserved. However, it would have been handy if it had also ...
Dameyon Bonson
Guns, bombs and stethoscopes
It is tempting, human beings that we are, to settle for the broad brushstrokes of history. In neglectful ignorance we can easily forget individual sacrifices made in our name and allow the past to become a distant stranger. To do so in relation to our medical forebears who served, and of whom many were wounded and died in World War I, would demean them and ...
Brendan J Nelson
Out of the sky
A story inspired by many trips to western New South Wales as a visiting doctor
David C Shelley Jones MB BS, FRCOG, FRANZCOG
