🇳🇱 🇿🇦 🇬🇧 🇦🇺 By Paul Alexander Wolf >>>> The older I become, the less certain I am about many things. Yet I remain astonished by how certain people, conversations, pieces of music—and even small moments—continue to echo through a lifetime. Most experiences fade. They belong to a season and then vanish. Others linger quietly…

By Paul Alexander Wolf >>> Reflections on Direction, Dignity and Australia’s Future For many years I have worked as a family physician in Australia. During that time I have listened to thousands of stories: stories of illness, recovery, resilience, disappointment, hope and loss. Patients do not present with policy papers, economic forecasts or opinion polls.…

By Paul Alexander Wolf Some years ago, I admitted an elderly couple from my general practice to Tailem Bend District Hospital. They had been referred from elsewhere. At the time, I was the Senior Medical Officer of both the medical practice and the district hospital in Tailem Bend. They had been married for many decades…

What Protects the Development of Doctors? Watching Doc Martin in Cornwall? Perhaps. Although if any of us attempted to imitate him too closely, AHPRA would probably be on our doorstep before morning. Still, the question itself has interested me for years. Not the question of competence. Medical education has become remarkably good at developing competence.…

—By Paul Alexander Wolf I have no idea why some impressions remain for a lifetime while others disappear by the following Tuesday. Africa has reappeared often enough in my life that I have stopped pretending to be surprised. As life evolves, I find myself less fascinated by explanations that explain very little and more interested…