The health service is under serious pressure. Our Government struggles to cope with a jaw-dropping escalation of costs. A fairly recent visit to our local ED, where I found a multitude of doctors struggling to cope with the flow of patients, confirmed to me that us rural doctors are being replaced by a growing...

“And why are you ringing me about that tonight?”, I tentatively asked him. Maybe I had nudged him a little too far. Silence on the phone – a long pause. I sensed him considering his reply and possibly even feeling a little miffed. Had I overstepped the mark? Was my tone a little too firm?
His symptom was...

Climate science is understood in varying degrees by most people, while the essence of the climate crisis has now gained mainstream acceptance. We learned about non-renewable energy and greenhouse gases as far back as primary school. The milestone Charney Report¹ to the US government in the late 1970s predicted...

In mid-February we felt a comfortable indifference to the impending threat posed by Covid-19. This ‘Chinese’ virus, as US president Trump inappropriately labels it, seemed to be limited mainly to the Chinese city of Wuhan. Similar to previous epidemics like SARS in 200 3 and MERs in 2012, the coronavirus...

People identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) are a sexual minority and suffer significant health inequalities compared to the heterosexual majority.¹ An estimated 1.7% to 9.9% of the adult population identify as LGBT but the validity of these estimates is questioned.¹ The issue of sexual...