Dr Mackenzie Little is about 2.07 metres from Olympic glory
Dr Mackenzie Little avoids mentioning at work that she is a two-time Olympian, but sometimes colleagues and patients find out. “There have been a couple…
Tag: Surgery
‘Neurosurgeons have circled the wagons’: Dr Charlie Teo a year after his disciplinary hearing
A year after he was sanctioned over his management of two patients, Dr Charlie Teo says neurosurgeons have “circled the wagons” to ensure he cannot…
Periods, taboos and roomy gowns: Dr Rhea Liang on how theatre is changing for women surgeons
Over her career as a general and breast surgeon, Associate Professor Rhea Liang has been urging colleagues to normalise conversations around periods and surgeons. Here…
Spot Dx — Can you name this solitary nodule?
A 71-year-old retired firefighter presents with a solitary nodule on his left arm. Test your clinical know-how by taking the quiz below. If you select…
Medical Must-See: Doctors unpeel bowel obstruction case
US surgeons have issued unusual — yet sage — advice to chew one’s unpeeled kumquats carefully before swallowing, after an elderly man who ate the…
Cause for caution with corticosteroids pre-arthroplasty
A sixty-five-year-old man, with no medical comorbidities, has a painful right hip which is being investigated by his GP. An MRI shows severe hip joint…
24 surgeries in 24 years: The remarkable story of Dr Caitlin Rutherford-Heard
“The doctor didn’t come to speak to me afterwards. They didn’t tell Mum and Dad that the surgery hadn’t worked. “They didn’t visit me in the ICU or on the ward. I never had a follow-up appointment. …
Spot Dx — Thumb lump plays havoc for this violinist
Alphonsus is a 65-year-old professional violinist who presents with a lump on the radio-volar aspect of the interphalangeal joint of his right thumb. Test your…
‘After removing a rectum, I’d be in a valley with sheep and a couple of parrots’: Dr Freedman’s life in colour
In the first of the pandemic lockdowns Dr David Freedman was wondering how to fill his days, when a pair of eastern rosellas began nesting…
Medical Must-See: How a simple elbow dislocation led to fasciotomy six hours later
A Japanese woman escaped serious complications, including myonecrosis, following a simple elbow dislocation that morphed into acute compartment syndrome, doctors report. The case also highlights…
