I haven’t been around for a bit. Off the lands and roaming capital cities and other places for meetings, catching up with families and some office work and then my laptop dying a painful death followed my a rebirth three weeks later on an extended warranty I didn’t know I had. My office is set up with a couple of big screens and I am ready to catch up on a backlog of work and blogs.
Well I will be when the pharmacy student I have had stopping with me for three weeks leaves on Tuesday. Being a small place he sleeps in my office. And being a uni student he seems to need a lot of sleep (??) so my late night office time doesn’t exist. But I shouldn’t complain. He volunteered to swag a few hundred metres away in the scrub last night. No, he wasn’t forced (that’s to his mum who I think reads this blog).
So last night I had a free run to catch up on 500 or so non urgent emails and mainly wiping out about 1000 posts on my RSS Reader and caught up on a bit of reading. Here’s a few hi-lights.
The Sydney Morning Herald had a great article titled Between the Rock and a hard place looking at Mutijulu Community at Uluru since the Intervention. Like this blog it is a bit of a wander but you get a feel for the place.
My friends over at Life in the Fast Lane are a couple of ED docs in Western Australia and have a great case study on Hypokalaemia and Metabolic Acidosis. These case studies are to assist those doing their FACEM examinations.
H1N1 influenza 09 (human swine influenza) is here to stay and the current ASID/TSANZ guidelines were recently published in the Medical Journal of Australia. Then there is the media release from DoHA put out on June 25th a couple of days after Australia’s first (indigenous) death from H1N1 influenza telling us Indigenous Australians are recognised in planning and they just didn’t make up this plan for indigenous Australians the day before (which I think they did).
An article Branding the blacks – a “community of thieves” and the tyranny of terminology in the Northern Myth usually written by Bob Gosford in Yuendumu has a great article by Sue Stanton looking at the way terms and names are used to entrench power rather than improving the fate of aboriginal people. A great discussion in the comments at the end of the article.
Things improve as I read how pharmacists can save the world. Perhaps not quite. Drug Injury Watch has a great article hi-lighting the effect of pharmacists in reducing the number of medication errors in hospitals.
Papulankutja Artists at Blackstone have a nice article Paint ‘Right Way’ looking at a recent painting of a Dreamtime painting by Thomas Reid as he starts painting the stories told to him by his father (another great artist) Cliff Reid.
I hope all that reading keep you all off my back as I catch up a little.
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