Writing to Heal Thyself: Physician as Person & Person as Physician

Placebo: Physician, Heal Thyself

John W. McArthur, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Guido SchmidtTraub Amir Attaran’s Policy Forum [1] raises important points on the poor quality of data for some indicators used to measure progress on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), but, sadly, uses these fi ndings to draw the wrong conclusions. The evidence he presents on a small number of indicators is partial, and does not justify his conclusion ...

Physician heal thyself.

Physician heal thyself: lifestyle education for medical students.

Marc Cohen is currently the Director of the Complementary Medicine Unit at Monash University and Vice President of the Australian Integrative Medicine Association. He received his MBBS from Monash Universi~. after completing a Bachelor of Medical Science and a PhD in Traditional Chinese Medicine. For the past six years he has been responsible for creating teaching programs in acupuncture and co...

Physician secure thyself

Whilst discussion rages on the issues relating to security of medical data and the reason why it is important, there is little published information on how to tackle even basic security challenges for medical practice in Australia. Research suggests an underestimation of the threats to medical data by medical practitioners, hence there is sufficient reason to promote development of tools to ass...

Physician, know thyself.