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By Prof Tom Brett
01 Mar 2010
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The
sheer physical size of WA magnifies the difficult task of finding solutions to
providing basic medical services for many in our state. Equity in access to
such services has little or no meaning for remote communities where housing,
sanitation, water supply and educational services remain at a very basic level.
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By Frank Schaper
01 Feb 2010
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There
are roughly 500,000 Australians living with dementia, with Alzheimer's being
the most common form. Although there is no cure, treatments prolong quality of
life and provide assistance to those caring for the afflicted.
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By Dr Willie Walker
01 Dec 2009
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The recent Primary Health Care Research Conference 2009 highlighted a relative lack of primary health care research, with most research papers still based on hospital patients. The only way to fix this is for GPs to do it themselves!
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By Wendy Wardell
01 Dec 2009
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The holiday season is almost upon us and with it, a chance to travel that well-worn pathway of excitement, frustration, and plain brown-trousered dread that marks many such adventures in family bonding. Holidays provide the same opportunity to reconnect with your family that.....
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By Dr Nicholas Waldron
01 Nov 2009
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As I was reading the soon to be released Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care: Falls Prevention Guidelines, the knowledge explosion was laid out before me in black and white. The revised document is now split into three guidelines, each with close to 400 references, and totals 700 pages.
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By Dr Penny Flett
01 Nov 2009
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Medicine of old age is going to be everyone’s business very, very soon, and it’s time to think about what that means. We haven’t really worked out what population ageing is likely to mean to doctors, to the health and care services, and to society in general. The baby boom after World War II has
produced
a generation.....
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By Dr Kim Hames, WA Health Minister
01 Oct 2009
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 "Over my dead body". While I did utter those strong words in response to
queries about what I thought of a potential Commonwealth takeover of public
hospital funding following the release of the final report of the National
Health and Hospitals Reform Commission (NHHRC)...
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By By Dr Paul van Zijl, GP
01 Oct 2009
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 After plying my trade in South Africa, Abu Dhabi,
and Ireland, I am now in the
Pilbara working at Port
Hedland Hospital.
What strikes me most about the Australian way is the total lack of deference: everybody
gets treated the same way, the supervisor and the supervised accorded the same
respect.
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