June 1, 2014
Medicine and the mind-body problem
Medicine
What is sickness, and how much of it is in our heads?
Karen Hitchcock
By this author
May 1, 2014
Big pharma
Pharmaceuticals
How doctors deal with drug companies
March 1, 2014
The biggest decisions
Decision-making
Why doctors second-guess themselves
February 1, 2014
Medicine’s mission to Mars
Transplants, out-of-body organs and limits to treatment
December 1, 2013
Health care, American style
Barack Obama
Motivational slogans and pricey lungs in a US hospital
November 1, 2013
A visit to the nursing home
Australian society
How we look after the elderly
October 1, 2013
Ill communication
Society
You can learn the science of medicine, but what about the human aspects?
September 1, 2013
In the body and in the mind
article
How do you provide medical treatment for a non-medical problem?
March 1, 2013
Fat City: What can stop obesity?
essay
In the late 1980s I spent a year in the US as an exchange student. The exchange organisation allocated me a local support person named Emily. Emily was white and loud and the fattest person I had ever seen outside a caravan park. She looked different …
July 5, 2012
Last resort
essay
How the rebirth of general medicine will save lives
June 1, 2012
A Case of Rust
Horticulture
The Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show
May 3, 2012
‘The Weight of a Human Heart’ by Ryan O’Neill
arts
The 21 stories in Ryan O’Neill’s new collection are tied together by a preoccupation with language. There are books, magazines, word games, phonetics, grammar lessons, miscommunications, translations on every page. The world exists insofar as it exists …