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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
Boxing legend Muhammad Ali’s prominent neurological symptoms — namely, the left-arm rest tremor — were not the result of boxing-related head trauma, his doctors have…
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