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    Tag: Medical History

    Inaccurate and misogynistic: Why we need to make the term ‘hysterectomy’ history

    June 25, 2025

    Tonsillectomy, appendectomy, lumpectomy make sense. The suffix ‘ectomy‘ denotes surgical removal of the named body part, so these terms give a clear idea of what…

    Vascular surgeon’s 18,000km solo motorbike trip to honour Australia’s first female surgeon

    February 17, 2025

    A lone rider, an unforgiving landscape and 18,000km of road — Dr Igor Banzic, a vascular surgeon, took on a testing solo challenge: circumnavigating Australia…

    My first year of medical school was sudden death — an era of big egos and elitism

    February 5, 2025

    Recently, I was given a copy of a paper, published in the Australasian Annals of Medicine in November 1962, entitled ‘The Art of Medicine’. It…

    IMGs were once considered ‘alien invaders’: I owe my career to one of them

    January 17, 2025

    I’ve been pondering the hurdles that IMG doctors have faced in trying to practise in Australia. There has been a host of bureaucratic hoops to…

    Stanford Prison Experiment: Why the lead psychologist defended his infamous study to the end

    November 4, 2024

    A world-first shyness clinic, an analysis of sexist Reader’s Digest jokes and perhaps the most infamous study ever all emerged from one man’s mind: Emeritus…

    ‘A troubled and eccentric GP with a profound vision’: The story that has stayed with me for over 50 years

    September 18, 2024

    There are many books that have influenced my life, starting with the Famous Five series and then the New English Bible. But during my time…

    Arsenic and picrotoxin: What was on the PBS back in 1951

    July 3, 2024

    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…

    Bloody myth about Vlad the Impaler may be true, scientists say

    September 17, 2023

    Romanian warlord Vlad the Impaler may not have drunk human blood as legend suggests, but it turns out he probably did shed bloody tears. Molecular…

    The true origin of ‘first, do no harm’: Dr Thomas Sydenham is the father of clinical medicine

    June 23, 2023

    A recent essay by M. Bennet Broner, ‘Navigating the complexity of ‘first do no harm’ in modern medicine‘, provided an excellent review of this principle.…

    What really killed Beethoven? Centuries-old hair samples shed light on mystery 

    April 6, 2023

    A new theory on Ludwig van Beethoven’s death blames his heavy drinking, hepatitis B infection and a predisposition to liver disease based on genetic testing…

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