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History and humanities
Nanette Stacy Waddy, AC, MBE, MB BS, MD(Honoris Causa), FRANZCP
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)
The angiography of trees
If, under sterile conditions, using local anaesthesia …
David Francis MD, FRACS
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
The Sick Room
Here he is, entering though still, a painting hung in the doorway
Heather Taylor Johnson
The pouch of Douglas
Cells multiply like rabbits … One woman’s personal experience of cancer
Tracy Sorensen MCA
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
ANZAC after 100 years
100 years after the Gallipoli landing, Dr Brendan Nelson, director of the Australian War Memorial, examines the legacy of the Anzacs
Brendan J Nelson BM BS
100 years of military health experience
Medical care for our wounded soldiers has improved dramatically since World War I
Robyn M Walker AM, MB BS, FRACMA · Michael C Reade DPhil, FANZCA, FCICM
Experiences with the Australian Army Medical Corps at Gallipoli
Edited extract of an article by surgeon Major John Corbin, first published in 1916
John Corbin MRCS(Eng), LRCP(Lond)
Physician, heal thyself
A doctor considers the inner turmoil experienced when serving in a war zone
Robert K Likeman FRANZCOG, FACRRM, FACTM
Public health at Anzac Cove
Gastrointestinal diseases were epidemic in the trenches at Gallipoli
Milton J Lewis BA(Hons), MA, PhD · Stephen R Leeder MD, FRACP, PhD
The origins of the Anzac Day celebrations and the contributions of Monash
Why the spirit of Anzac has captured the imagination of all Australians
Bruce P Waxman OAM, FRACS, FRCS
