Topics
History and humanities
Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (1818–1865): herald of hygienic medicine
Commemorating the bicentenary of the doctor who championed aseptic practice in obstetric medicine
Edward A Carson · Nadeem Toodayan
The guilty pleasure of Christmas cookies
Each year, as Christmas draws near, she calls in for a visit.
Ranjana Srivastava
Licence to swill: James Bond’s drinking over six decades
Bond should seek professional help and find alternatives to drinking for managing on-the-job stress
Nick Wilson · Anne Tucker · Deborah Heath · Peter Scarborough
Vale New Medical School (the Blackburn Building), University of Sydney
More than a building: a change in direction of medical education
Catherine E Storey
James Parkinson’s Essay on the shaking palsy, 1817–2017
Commemorating the 200th anniversary of the first specific description of parkinsonism
Nadeem Toodayan
the five cardinal signs of inflammation
1. rubor (“redness”, cf. fervour, liquor, raptor)
Ian Gibbins
A guide to improving women’s health
Obstetrics and gynecology in low-resource settings: a practical guide
Rupert G Sherwood
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
Geoffrey Laurence Driscoll, OAM, FRCSEd, FRANZCOG, FRCOG
13 March 1947 - 5 October 2016
David Molloy
Keith Mortimer Higlett
28 November 1921 -- 19 November 2016
Michel A Higlett · Lesley M Dillmann · Rick A Higlett · Robert F Higlett
High-pressure injection injury: benign appearance belies potentially devastating consequences
A 73-year-old farmer presented with a finger injury after the spontaneous rupture of a hydraulic hose
Anna T Ryan · Bruce R Johnstone
Physical comorbidities of post-traumatic stress disorder in Australian Vietnam War veterans
A comprehensive approach to the health care of veterans with PTSD is needed
Sarah C McLeay · Wendy M Harvey · Madeline NM Romaniuk · Darrell HG Crawford · David M Colquhoun · Ross McD Young · Miriam Dwyer · John M Gibson · Robyn A O'Sullivan · Graham Cooksley · Christopher R Strakosch · Rachel M Thomson · Joanne Voisey · Bruce R Lawford
