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Hearts In Darkness
Doctors, the world over, are reeling. The global telegraph (#BawaGarba) has been alight with conversations, most of them uncomprehending, shocked, dismayed, fearful. In several swift and definitive decisions, a UK paediatric trainee, Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba was not only erased from…
The Art of Medicine or the Medicolegal minefield
When Hippocrates started tutoring the first medical students on the steps of the Acropolis back in Ancient Greece, the art of medicine was born and the gradual understanding of disease processes and healing could really begin. It really goes without…
Saving Lives, One Online Module at a Time
I’m not sure how we ever used to manage multi-traumas. We must have been frightfully underprepared. Back in the days before mandatory training we relied, rather guilelessly, on experience, a suite of knowledge from texts and journals and M &…
When the elephant awakens…
Why is everyone really so annoyed about the AHPRA social media guidance?
The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) has managed to enrage health professionals across the country over the last month with their new rules around advertising through social media. And, as when every other major organisation releases a social media policy, we have…