Soon after my near-death flight, I faced a greater terror — my anatomy exam
My dentist was regaling me with stories about his university days while I had my mouth open, drowning in my own saliva. He initially took…
Tag: Lighter Side
Arsenic and picrotoxin: What was on the PBS back in 1951
Modern medicine is a scientific wonder, and one reason why there are now nearly a thousand different medicines available to doctors through the PBS to…
My deranged body clock won’t let me stay up beyond 7pm
I’ve always been someone who has naturally gone to bed early. In high school, I would attack my homework promptly, so that I could have…
Hospital malfunction: Orthopaedic patients given service call bells to alert nurses
Modern healthcare — high tech, high cost with complex life-saving computer-guided machinery that, in the 21st century at least, does far more than go ping.…
Doctor achieves global fame for resuscitation of a fish called Alice
A UK doctor has hit headlines for life-saving services provided not to his human patients, but to a goldfish he found on his back lawn…
Why would you ever use the ‘top doctor’ label when it’s such b*ll*cks?
In my youth, modesty and understatement were regarded as virtues. Professional organisations such as the AMA had strict rules about advertising and marketing. × Welcome…
Do patients unexpectedly intrude on your holiday time? Tell us your stories
AusDoc’s favourite medical-related book is called Dr Dog. While its target audience is children aged about eight, and it does involve fart jokes, it offers…
I was a rock star who gave up fame for general practice
Well, if a No 1 hit qualifies me for that appellation… I started a singing group when still at school in the early 1960s. That…
The AusDoc trivia quiz — just for fun
<p>All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true. </p><p>One guy I knew really was shot in Dresden for taking…
The AusDoc trivia quiz – just for fun
× Welcome to AusDoc. Enabling and empowering the medical community to come together. Sign in If this is your first visit to the new AusDoc…
