MedConnect – Where Medicine Connects

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Elsevier Australia has long been associated with publishing textbooks and journals for the Australian and New Zealand markets. Until recently, the Australasian arm of the Elsevier publishing giant had been content with their role as ‘hard copy’ publishers of high quality health related literature, leaving the internet and software based platforms to their US counterparts.

When Doug met Struan

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The incomparable Douglas Adams, of “A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy ” fame, needs no introduction.

Australian Medical Blog Award 2009

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Australian Medical Blog Award 2009

Happy Darwin Day!

Happy Darwin Day

February 12th 2009 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of my favourite medical dropout, Charles Darwin. Darwin Day is a way of celebrating the great man’s contribution to science (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online) and, more generally, the importance of science to humanity. Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge; it [...]

Rationalization of the Complaint Free Zone

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Last week I decided to tackle the challenge of completing ’21 Complaint Free Days

To the Night-shift ED Doctor

It’s four in the morning. It’s been a long night… I know, believe me. But before you discharge the 60 year-old man who came in gasping for air a few hours earlier, take the time to consider a few things. Listen to the history, the patient may tell you the diagnosis. Having to get out [...]

The Four Hour Rule comes to Australia

WA health has taken another bold step in its continued quest to drive ‘long term system wide reform’ and implement strategies which will enhance the patient experience and ‘flow’ through the turbulent waters of ‘unscheduled care’.