
Society’s safety net
Politics
When social services are cut, hospitals are left to fill the holes
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Society’s safety net
Politics
When social services are cut, hospitals are left to fill the holes
‘Fat City’ revisited
Society
Obesity is a health issue, not an identity issue
Love, fear and hierarchy
Society
What role does ego play in medicine?
Mind the gaps
Society
The private health insurance racket
High times
Society
After lunch at my mum’s house the other day, my brother and I walked around the corner to visit an old school friend we hadn’t seen for years. Pete had moved back into his childhood home when his parents left for a retirement village. He answered …
Fragments
blog
An extract from ‘Dear Life: on caring for the elderly’
The dementia cure
Society
Do we change our behaviour or wait for a medical breakthrough?
Ironman and medical exams
article
How a gruelling physical challenge became a welcome relief
The rural doctor problem
Medicine
Practising medicine away from the big cities
Do no harm
Medicine
Sometimes a doctor can’t help but kill a patient
Looking for trouble
Health
Does medical screening do more harm than good?
The pill problem
General medicine
Are GPs prescribing too many antidepressants?
Crazy pills
General medicine
Our obsession with vitamins is getting out of hand