Together we’ll create the best environment for patient care
There is much debate about wearing masks. By the time we’ve worked out it’s the right thing to do, for many people, it will be too late. #masks4all – I protect you. You protect me. Perhaps the best way to encourage others to wear a mask is to do it […]
95% of surveyed doctors do not feel Australian PPE guidelines are accurate or up-to-date. Such guidelines have unintended negative consequences including a great deal of uncertainty, shaming, bullying and harassment as well as rigid top down thinking in the workforce around this issue. This in turn leads to the gravest […]
Having discussed coronavirus management with Chinese colleagues and reviewed numerous sources of information it’s a burning question: Are the Personal Protective Equipment policies in Australia inadequate? Hospitals are a major transmission area for coronavirus Coronavirus is highly transmissible – it’s present in our breath, hangs around in still air for […]
‘Everyone wear a mask and don’t take it off’. Hospital staff will be passing coronavirus to one another and this is a greater concern than the patient to staff spread. I was fortunate to speak with a senior ICU nurse from Wuhan Union Hospital – Ms Hu – she’s kindly […]
While the government going forward will try and lead you to believe the coronavirus deaths were inevitable I want all Australians to know they were not. We will keep you updated on the number of deaths which occur in Australia as a result of Scott Morrison and the Federal and […]
While there have been approximately 450 test positive cases in Australia the true number will be magnitudes greater than this. Some estimates are up to 10 times greater. It is very likely there are people with coronavirus in your school. Even if you test negative to coronavirus there is still […]
Apart from a few jokes about panic buying of toilet rolls everything else seems much the same Life goes on. We continue to act in the same way. Not surprising many find it impossible to fathom the carnage which lies ahead. None of us have experienced this before….. The cases […]
On World Patient Safety Day (17th Sept 2019) the World Health Organisation stated ‘at least 5 people die every minute because of unsafe care.’ The issue only appears to be getting worse. Yet we’ve designed our hospitals on the premise that as doctors and nurses we don’t make mistakes – […]