Health and medical research sector at a crossroads: a call for action
To ensure long-term resilience, we must protect and re-shape Australia’s world-class health and medical research workforce.
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The urgent case to support staff after adverse events
Doctors can be deeply affected by the adverse events in their career. Staff peer support programs help to remind doctors that they are not alone.
Zen and the art of emergency medicine
In the high tech, fast paced world of the emergency department, how do we ensure we hold onto our humanity?
Before vaccines, diphtheria used to kill hundreds each year. Now it’s back in Australia
The Northern Territory and Western Australia are experiencing outbreaks of an almost-eradicated infection, diphtheria.
Understanding variability in stuttering
Research has found that variability in stuttering is addressed and treated differently by speech language pathologists and generalists, and that more real-life experience for trainees can help reduce the gap.
Dissociation and Dissociative Identity Disorder: reframing trauma-related presentations
Dissociation is a common and clinically significant trauma response. Clinicians must recognise it early and respond in ways that are safe, evidence-informed, and trauma-responsive.
Anabolic steroids expose a blind spot in modern harm reduction
Harm reduction has transformed responses to drug-related harm, but emerging evidence suggests current models fail to address the distinct risks associated with anabolic steroid use.
A new Clinical Care Standard to improve emergency laparotomy outcomes
The first national Emergency Laparotomy Clinical Care Standard aims to support a standardised approach to identification, assessment and treatment of time-critical abdominal conditions needing surgery, with a particular focus on high-risk and older patients.
The Bondi Beach terror attack mobilised a team of volunteer medics. Here’s what we learned
Warning: this article contains details of injuries sustained during a terrorist attack.
