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07
2007
“Gold Coast doctor questioned by federal police over possible link to British bomb plots says he just wants to sleep (The Age).” It seems more of my colleagues from around the world are being rounded up each day after the failed bombings in the UK. Drs Mohammed Haneef and Mohamed Ali from Gold Coast Hospital are the latest to be taken in for questioning, with the latter recently released without charge. It looks like wearing a stethoscope may soon raise as many eyebrows as wearing a turban. Considering the high likelihood that I will be practicing at the very same Gold Coast Hospital next year, I don’t much like my chances for travelling under the radar! The greatest mystery in all of this remains, how did a group of highly educated, intellectually elite individuals manage to screw up so spectacularly?
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13
02
2007
My Palm PDA has been a great asset during the last year, both on and off the wards. Thanks to an abundance of free or trial software, I’ve had a chance to try out a large range of reference tools and trim down my list of favourites based on my usage. It’s always very easy to become swamped with information, so I believe strongly in keeping things simple and using only a select few tools. In writing this Top 5 article and reflecting on my usage patterns over the last year, I was surprised at how narrow this list really was.
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6
10
2006
This is the second in a series of articles on Personal Digital Assistants, directed at senior medical students and junior doctors. In PDAs in Medicine: Do I need one? I discussed some of the many ways in which a PDA can help the junior clinician. The aim of this piece is to unravel some of the jargon and simplify the process of finding the right device for you.
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31
07
2006
This article will be the first in a series on PDAs, and their use to medical students and junior doctors. I will cover some basics, try to dispel some myths and share some of what I’ve learnt in my search for a PDA. Future articles will focus on specific uses and software that I believe may be of use to medical students.
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18
03
2006
I remember lying in bed the night before my Pharmacology exam, a million thoughts racing through my head. One of them was familiar to me - it was whether I should try my hand at medicine, or to stick with optometry. I had been down this train of thought before, but this time something was different. I had just spent the last few days cramming details of drug treatments for everything from asthma to heart failure. I could recite backwards the protocol for pharmacological management of an acute myocardial infarct, and words like rosiglitazone poked at my consciousness, preventing me from falling asleep. This was exciting stuff! The thought of never utilising this information as an optometrist was a little disappointing - it was almost as if I was given a glimpse, a teaser, into the life of medicine only to be returned to reality. Despite this instinctive attraction however, I felt I couldn’t commit to studying for another four years. But then another thought entered my weiry mind: everyone knows med students throw the wildest parties! Four months later I was sitting the Graduate Australian Medical School Admissions Test (GAMSAT).
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