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Cold Chain II
Maintaining the cold chain is difficult out bush. I wrote in August about the high temperatures reached in the planes transporting our pharmaceuticals. Power failures are regular in many remote communities and can lead to failure of the cold chain rendering the vaccines and other refrigerated items unusable. Over time I have built up a [...]
Musical Interlude I
Welcome to another Pleasant Sunday Afternoon. I am unsure if this is best played by oboe or flute. Well the drive up the Stuart Highway can be boring to some. Today we have an extra part to our Pleasant Sunday Afternoon. And it’s for free. Actually, I am unsure if I can even give it away! Those who [...]
Top Ten: Why not? Everyone else is.
It is possibly a bit pretentious as I have only been blogging since August. And regularly blogging since mid December with only 71 posts. But everyone else has been doing it. Consider it showing my newer subscribers some earlier “quality” posts. So my ten most popular posts are: 1. “A Drive in The Country: It took this truck [...]
Hand Knitted Twitter Aggregator
Yeah, I use Twitter. It is a terrific medium. I get to speak to specialists in their field around the world every day of the week. These include Aussie Emergency Physicians that work at hospitals that take our patients. But the best use of it I have seen was by Mr Onthemoon over the Christmas [...]
Design Your Own Drug
New Year’s Day. I am sure there are more immediate needs you need the “Design Your own Drug” for. Click on the pic and start designing. If you like this post and what else you see on the blog please subscribe by RSS feed (the orange button) or by email. The email subscription is just under my [...]

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Top Ten: Why not? Everyone else is.

It is possibly a bit pretentious as I have only been blogging since August. And regularly blogging since mid December with only 71 posts. But everyone else has been doing it.
Consider it showing my newer subscribers some earlier “quality” posts.
So my ten most popular posts are:
1. “A Drive in The Country: It took this truck [...]

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Posted: January 2nd, 2009 under Indigenous, PSA - Pleasant Sunday Afternoon, Remote Living, Remote health, Rural Health, blog.
Tags: aboriginal, bush, CRANA, health, Indigenous, Oodnadatta, PSA - Pleasant Sunday Afternoon, remote
Comments: 3

CRANA Opens its Doors

The Council of Remote Area Nurses of Australia (CRANA) was founded in 1983.
From the website: General concern about the poor health status of people who live in remote areas and the inequities, quality and accessibility in services available to these Australians was and remains the catalyst for action.
CRANA’s aim is to “promote the development and [...]

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Posted: September 25th, 2008 under Professional Services, Remote health, Rural Health.
Tags: CARPA, CRANA, health, remote, SARRAH
Comments: 2

Congratulations Peter Gissing

Peter Gissing from Wagga Wagga elected head of PSA NSW

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Posted: August 23rd, 2008 under Pharmaceutical Society of Australia, Rural Health.
Tags: NSW, Pharmaceutical Society, rural pharmacy
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Don’t Catch Influenza in the Country

The influenza vaccine is only about 70% effective but this does increase with regular yearly injections.

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Posted: August 21st, 2008 under Rural Health, drug Information.
Tags: drug, information, NDPSC, pharmacy, prescription
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Top Ten: Why not? Everyone else is.

CRANA Opens its Doors

Congratulations Peter Gissing

Don’t Catch Influenza in the Country