Rethinking pain management
For those old enough, cast your mind back to the mid-1990s. There were no oral opiate medications aside from those containing codeine, and these were used sparingly. Read More...
Opinion
Some things change – others do not
This year will require everyone in the health sector to be adaptable and innovative as COVID becomes an endemic virus. It will also require a pivot back to all the non-COVID health issues which have been ignored to varying degrees over the past two years. Read More...
Bureaucracy v clinical frontline?
Former Royal Perth Hospital doctor David Prentice details what he believes has gone wrong in health bureaucracy. Read More...
Letter to the Editor: A not-so-happy ending
Letter to the Editor: Palliative medicine specialist Dr Derek Eng and Louise Angus made it very clear that VAD is not palliative care (Medical Forum, Nov 2021). Read More...
Age and wisdom
The website statistica.com has a chart showing life expectancy in Australia steadily increasing since 1870. A person born in Australia in 2020 can expect to live for 83.2 years (females 85.4 and males 81.5). Some enjoy good health in later years. Read More...
Move it, move it!
This is the second year running (excuse the pun) that the City to Surf has been cancelled. I will never break any land speed records but it is certainly an annual goal to extend my runs up to 12km in the lead up to late August. Reaching the finish line is always a boost to the spirit. Increased training in any physical activity can remind us of muscles we haven’t thought about for a while. Read More...
Every breath you take
Different body systems hold different places in our psyche. We think of life (outside the womb) starting with the first breath and passing as taking our last. In between those two bookends, in the main, most of us do not have to think much about breathing. It just happens. When we get “short of breath” it does focus our minds though. Read More...
Who thinks of the children?
The proverbial visitor from Mars would look at how our society treats children and form a view that there is some inconsistency. On one hand we say that the children are the future but, on the other, decisions are often made to the detriment of children and the benefit of adults. Read More...