Teaching a privilege and an honour I hold deeply. I honestly believe we don’t do it well enough in Medicine. The didactic chalkboards and whiteboards have been replaced by the projector and millions of PowerPoint slides with the primary effect of numbing the brain. We may have killed dynamic thinking with the PowerPoint. It’s all … More Teaching is a privilege
RCH Surgeons vs Anaesthetists Debate: Actions speak louder than words. OPPOSITION TEAM. Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen. A very good evening to our esteemed judges. It is an absolute honour to be here with you representing the surgical community. It is my promise that we 3 surgeons will continue to be here to support you … More Surgeons vs Anaesthetists Debate
We have a complex problem. There really is not a single simple solution to the issue of clinician burnout and the poor wellbeing of today’s doctors. We need to accept this. The proponents of yoga and meditation need to know that no amount of mindfulness can fix an abusive hierarchy. Those who think good legislations … More Clinician Wellbeing Intervention Strategies
We have a complex problem. There really is not a single simple solution to the issue of clinician burnout and the poor wellbeing of today’s doctors. We need to accept this. The proponents of yoga and meditation need to know that no amount of mindfulness can fix an abusive hierarchy. Those who think good legislations … More Rethinking Doctors Wellbeing Interventions
Introduction presented at The Royal Children’s Hospital Grand Round Feb 2019. Grand Rounds are about the big things that matter most to our patients. Grand Rounds are about milestones of the past, victories of the present and forecasting of the future. At their core, Grand Rounds are about the things that would make our patients’ … More RCH Grand Round Intro to Clinician Wellbeing
Article published on Surgical News, a publication of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Vol 19 No.10, Nov-Dec 2018. As frequent flyers, many of us will be able to recite the safety briefing routinely broadcast at the start of every flight. Part of that briefing goes: “In the unlikely event of an emergency, oxygen masks … More Put on your mask first
Interview with UQMS from June 2018. This is the pre-publication unedited version. Could you tell us a bit about the experiences in your medical journey? I completed my MBBS through The University of Melbourne as a postgraduate student. I did my residency all over Victoria. I accentuated these experiences with Medical trips to Fiji and … More Mental Health and the Medical Journey
