‘I was surprised by how uncomfortable I felt’: Portraits of Australia’s VAD doctors
Voluntary assisted dying is now mainstream care in Australia. But its ethics still divide. Six years after it was first legalised in Victoria, here we…
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Smallpox could rise again, says bioterrorism expert Professor Raina MacIntyre
My interest in smallpox started in 2006 when I was on a committee that had to plan for potential biological warfare or terrorism. Bacteria and…
The year that was: Wuhan doctor reveals what really happened when COVID-19 struck
Here is the story of a doctor's life in a city under the control of a paranoid government obsessed with engineering perceptions.
I designed a simulation to prepare for pandemics pre-COVID-19, but our govt wasn’t interested
Smallpox was high on my radar again after the 2017 Evans horsepox experiment, which proved that smallpox could be synthesised in a lab. It was…
Deadly Quiet City: Wuhan doctor reveals what really happened in January 2020
Here is the story of a doctor's life in a city under the control of a paranoid government obsessed with engineering perceptions.
Why Dr Colin Mendelsohn is happy to defy the medical establishment on vaping
We will look back in twenty years and wonder why we didn’t embrace the products earlier, he writes in a new book
‘I see (touch, hear and smell) dead people’
Doing an autopsy is a sensory event, the GP writes in her new book.
After killing millions, Big Tobacco moves into healthcare
John Safran takes a look at the strategic shifts of Philip Morris, a company responsible for a global public health catastrophe.
‘I don’t care about your f***ing surgeries’: Life as an unaccredited registrar
An extract from Dr Yumiko Kadota's new book.
‘If you do no harm you do nothing’: The story of a medical revolution
An excerpt from a new book tells the tale of Nobel laureate Dr Don Thomas.
