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Datalinkage - Predicting Problems Ahead
Written by MF
Sunday, 01 August 2010
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 Quantifying health development pathways is the aim of an expansive new data project, and Telethon Institute’s Professor Fiona Stanley wants to use it to prevent child maltreatment and juvenile crime. When a child is born in a bad neighbourhood to bad parents and raised in poverty, it is more likely...
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Somaliland Sojourn for Perth Doctors
Written by Dr Rod Thelander
Thursday, 01 July 2010
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 UWA Medical School and Australian Doctors for Africa (a fledgling WA charity) have agreed to assist the new Hargeisa Medical School, in the capital of the Republic of Somaliland. Assistance is in the form of donated equipment and regular visits from WA doctors to train new doctors so the (unofficial) nation can rebuild after years of civil war. As recent as last March, Prof Trevor Parry, Dr Leon Cohen, Dr Anna Parker, and Dr Rod Thelander enjoyed the local hospitality to provide in-theatre and bedside teaching for ....
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Beyond the Limits – Jamie Dunross
Written by Dr Robert McEvoy
Thursday, 01 July 2010
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 Nobody likes to be defined by their disability but there is no escaping the fact that it is Jamie Dunross’ quadriplegia that makes his solo circumnavigation of Australia a real standout. When Medical Forum caught up with him at Airlie Beach in Queensland he had already survived a hammering off WA’s Cape Leeuwin (remember that hailstorm?), a freezing 1,500 nautical miles across the Southern Ocean from Albany to Hobart, and a traffic-dodging sail up the NSW coast. As Jamie tells his story, you have to remind yourself that this ‘able-bodied seaman’ has less than 50% use of his arms....
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Only Dags and the Libs Need Fags
Written by MF
Monday, 01 March 2010
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Last month it was revealed that the Liberal Party of Australia (LPA) received over $140,000 in donations from tobacco companies during the last financial year, causing a great stir across the country. The medical industry in particular.....
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Snowball appointed DG of WA Health
Written by MF
Monday, 01 February 2010
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Last month, Health Minister Kim Hames announced that Kim Snowball would be taking over as acting Director General of the Health Department after the resignation of Dr Peter Flett over a reported budget disagreement with Treasurer Troy Buswell.
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National Award to WA GP
Written by MF
Tuesday, 01 December 2009
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WA general practitioner Dr Olga Ward has received the Brian Williams Award for 2009. The RACGP award is conferred by the National Rural Faculty on a member who has made a significant....
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