Doctors and functional disorders — how I escaped heartsink
There is a term in medicine that has always made me feel uncomfortable. It gets used less now, but you still hear it: heartsink —…
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Drink your coffee, but only before the clock strikes 12!
Given coffee’s long history, its cross-cultural prevalence and its role in keeping doctors awake on the graveyard shifts, its health effects have been subject to…
‘Thank you, I’m a big fan of your work!’: A woman’s emotional reunion with the neonatologist who saved her life
Back in 1995 Dr Umesh Vaidya saved a life that had barely begun. He had been the neonatologist who resuscitated Freyja when she and her…
Could diet be behind the faster rise of gout in women than men?
Gout is rising faster among women than men and researchers now think that diet has a lot to do with it. A large prospective study…
From city streets to desert lands: A GP’s journey to Uluru
For almost four months of the year, Dr Andrew Boyden swaps his city life for the desert scrub of Uluru. He is one of three…
Are the ‘clinical marshmallows’ about to strike back?
The medical administrator who accused junior doctors of being “clinical marshmallows” had been asking doctors to work 10 consecutive night shifts, a doctors’ union has…
Are junior doctors really ‘clinical marshmallows’?
A misfired management email describing junior doctors as potential “clinical marshmallows” for placing lifestyle before career has sparked anger, an apology and, of course —…
Mental health minister battling psychiatrists in pay dispute told to quit after $750 Aus Day chauffeur trip
The NSW Minister for Mental Health, already under fire over the mass resignation of psychiatrists from the state’s collapsing mental health system, is facing fresh…
‘It was emotionally difficult for them’: Emergency doctor treated by friends and colleagues after 10 metre fall
Dr Fraser Bliesner has experienced first hand the miraculous impact of a pain team after a shocking 10m fall onto concrete just weeks before he…
Women hospitalised with suspected botulism after unregulated botox injections: HCCC
Two state regulators have issued warnings about unregulated botox injections following the hospitalisation of three women including one in ICU with suspected iatrogenic botulism. The…
