After only five-and-a-half months, our Local Health Networks (LHNs) in New South Wales are being rebranded again*. It seems that the new NSW government has decided to make its mark on the health service by fiddling with semantics. The Health Services Amendment (Local Health Districts and Boards) Act 2011 was proclaimed on 16 May and [...]
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My colonial medical elective
18Dec10Now that I’ve finally completed the Sydney Medical Program, it’s about time that I finally post some long-overdue reflections on my elective terms in London and Hong Kong at the start of the year. The Royal London Hospital (Barts and The London, QMUL) My first elective term was spent at The Royal London Hospital under [...]
SMP class of 2010
04Dec10After four long years of blood, sweat and tears, my Sydney Medical Program colleagues and I have finally finished medical school! Congratulations to everyone in the SMP graduating class of 2010! I was given the honour (and burden) of organising the official year photo for the Sydney Medical Program 2010 graduating cohort during Conference Week. [...]
London: First City of the Empire
27Sep10London: capital of the United Kingdom and once the heart of the greatest empire the world has seen. I think English literary figure Dr Samuel Johnson said it best when he declared that, “When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life…” These are a few thoughts from my time living in [...]
This is London calling
30Dec09I’m currently in the United Kingdom doing a medical elective attachment in General & Emergency Medicine at The Royal London Hospital, organised through Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry; part of Queen Mary, University of London. The medical elective is a component of final-year in most medical programs worldwide and gives students [...]
Coonabarabran: rural medicine
02Nov09So after the previous few posts on Coonabarabran, you might be wondering whether I actually got around to doing any medicine during my placement there. Indeed I had plenty of medical practice in Coona and it was an amazing experience! (As with previous posts on Coona, the photos below and more can be found on [...]
