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Being A Jockey: The Most Dangerous Job On Land

19 January 2009

A MEDICAL Journal of Australia study has found that being a jockey is more dangerous than being a boxer, with only the job of an offshore fisherman having more risk to lives... read full story

It's So Tough Out There, Warns Gp

14 December 2008

MARY FORTUNE left her son and husband in Scotland to work in Kalgoorlie after seeing an ad in the British Medical Journal... read full story

Painful Swelling Is A No-brainer

29 November 2008

IF YOUR sore limb looks big, it will hurt more, according to a researcher at the Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute. It is part of a complex interaction within the brain between information from nerve endings in the affected limb, and the brain's perception of how sore the limb appears. The researcher, Lorimer Moseley, describes it as possibly a response to danger: if it looks bigger, it looks more swollen, and therefore the brain acts to protect it. Actually we think there may be another ..... read full story

Tending The Wounded Of A Nation In Flames

15 November 2008

Running a medical trauma unit in Iraq brings fear and heartbreak... read full story

Kate Is New Medical It Girl

29 June 2008

When Kate Walsh was called in to the office of Grey's Anatomy creator Shonda Rhimes last year, she thought she must have done something bad and was about to get the sack... read full story

Sick System That Prolongs The Pain

16 March 2008

Graeme Stephen Reeves Selwyn Leeks Medical regulators are under fire for not protecting patients from incompetent, predatory and unstable doctors, writes WILLIAM BIRNBAUER... read full story

A Plan For More Tinkering With Rules

28 November 2007

Here's a funny thing. Every now and then I get a call, usually from someone of no small elevation within the NSW power-fest, to tell me - strictly entre nous - that the Planning Minister, Frank Sartor, is actually a decent bloke. Further that, being a decent bloke, he's doing a decent job. A job, it is presumed I presume, the developers resent... read full story

Bush Doctors To Heal Sick System

24 November 2007

Monash University will next year start an important medical course at its $10 million Gippsland campus to relieve the chronic shortage of doctors in rural and regional Victoria. It will enrol 60 graduate medical places students who after their first year will do clinical rotations at nearby hospitals, general practices and community health centres... read full story

Spinner's Job In Safe Hands

19 November 2007

STUART MacGill overcame one of the more disquieting injuries a spinner can experience - a lack of feeling in his bowling hand - to claim a pair of vital wickets that helped place Australia within sight of a series sweep of the Sri Lankans... read full story

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