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🇿🇦 SILOAM HOSPITAL 🇿🇦 – A TRIBUTE TO EVERT & LEIDA HELMS AND THE QUIET GIANTS OF VENDA
by Paul Alexander Wolf 🇦🇺 There are places that never leave you, even long after you’ve left them. Siloam Hospital in Venda is one of those places – a landscape of red dust, endurance, fragile systems, and a kind of stubborn human courage that never needed praise to be real. And at the centre of… Keep reading →
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Rewind: The Reluctant Computerisation of General Practice
Thirty-two years ago, I was training in England when computers first infiltrated GP practices. It was in Nantwich, Cheshire. Beautiful place. The older generation grumbled and clung to their handwritten notes, their Parker pens wielded with the authority of tradition. Within a year, even the most skeptical had conceded—if only for prescriptions. Fast forward to…
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Lost in the System: When Psychiatry Becomes a Waiting Room with No Exit
Psychiatry is a field of contradictions. On one hand, it saves lives; on the other, it sometimes traps people in diagnostic purgatory. Some psychiatrists are conservative, prescribing as little as possible; others believe in a more-the-merrier approach to pharmacology. Some are pioneers, pushing boundaries with emerging treatments; others are still prescribing as if it were…
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Sudden Cardiac Death After a Normal Stress Test: What Are We Missing? – A Case Study for both GP’s, General Physician’s and Cardiologist’s
Sudden Cardiac Death After a Normal Stress Test: What Are We Missing? INTRODUCTION A patient with a normal stress test, on Apixaban (for prior PE) and aspirin, was recently cleared for work as a heavy vehicle driver by a cardiologist. Yet, he suffered a fatal myocardial infarction (MI) shortly after pulling over his Road Train Truck due…
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As Long As You Breathe, You Have a Choice!
– What will you do with yours? Some choices change the world. Some change your world. But the principle remains the same: As long as you breathe, you have a choice. • The Palestinian child waking up to sirens and shattered glass. • The man in a prison cell, deciding if his past will bury…
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The Increasing Forgotten in Australia and the Ramifications for the Future, Failing Change.
( I refer to previous articles) “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” — Abraham Lincoln A nation, like a house, cannot endure when it is divided by injustice and far-reaching inequality. It is a historical lesson, one that has been repeated across centuries, across continents. And yet, here we are—watching as leaders ignore the…
We dream of things that never were and say: "Why not?" 