Some weeks one wonders if we are living in a Monty Python sketch. There has been the case of a person in Canada who identifies as a woman but has had no surgery, complaining to the human rights commission that a female beautician refused to handle and wax the scrotum....
In 1847 Ignaz Semmelweis a Hungarian Physician first discovered that the incidence of puerperal fever could be significantly reduced if doctors washed their hands before attending to mothers. Despite publication of results showing that hand washing reduced mortality...
Open Letter to the Medical Board of Australia In August 2018, Miranda Devine, a journalist, let the world know that proposed changes had been made to the Australian doctors code of good medical practice. We discovered that submissions were called for but were closing...
Recently the code of practice of doctors proposed to restrict freedom of speech for doctors. Of course, such terms were not directly used in the proposition of the code, but in the newly introduced section of professionalism it stated that: “Community trust in the...
On a recent weekend it was raining so instead of going for a run I used the exercise bike. One bonus (some may disagree) of this is that you can watch TV whilst exercising. Food shows are something that I find fun to watch and Rick Stein is one of my favourite...
Movies apart from, usually, being entertaining, can also get us thinking. Recently I saw the Australian move “Swinging Safari”, a comedy set in the 1970’s. For those who lived through the time it is a real trip down memory lane with so many iconic references to things...
