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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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While this is not really remote health, I believe attitudes of people in positions of authority go a long way to determining the level of service out bush. And while I am confident racism is not the cause, institutional racism has a role.
There is a study on racial attitudes in Australia occurring at the moment. [...]

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