‘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.
Tag: Long reads
The story of the Aussie doctor in WHO’s COVID-19 mission to China
An infectious diseases physician, Professor Dominic Dwyer was tasked with answering one of the most politically sensitive questions in the world.
‘I was a nurse armed with an F88 rifle and 9mm pistol’: A GP’s story
How Dr Justin Hunter's confronting experiences in Iraq led him into GP training.
Why psychedelics are returning to psychiatry
But are these experimental treatments little more than drug-assisted psychotherapy?
How China is meddling in the search for the origins of COVID-19
'It has become a black hole of no information because of political sensitivity and secrecy'.
Summer long reads: 6 of our best in-depth stories from 2020
What Aussie GPs actually did to patients back in 1875, the ethics of using a Nazi medical textbook and COVID-19's mad scientists
Answered: Why the govt is rethinking the GP training handover
The transition process is on hold but the reasons why have been far from clear, as Professor Richard Murray explains.
Doctors among those accused of sexual abuse in Congo Ebola crisis
Dozens of women allege that WHO and NGO staff sexually exploited them during the Democratic Republic of Congo's 2018-2020 epidemic.
Why the pharmacist UTI prescribing trial is not actually a trial
More than 700 pharmacists are diagnosing and prescribing for 'uncomplicated' UTIs but will we discover if it is safe and effective?
‘He fired a gunshot when he saw me’: Aussie GP’s first day in a new job
NSW GP Dr John Parker describes his first day working in a major trauma centre in Iraq in 2008.
