The widespread bullying of doctors during training is not just an issue for surgeons, or women. It’s a problem for all medical professionals – and it poses a risk to patient safety.
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Sport for Jove’s The Merchant of Venice is a production of ourstanding clarity, making it ideal for students or perhaps even those who simply don’t often see Shakespeare in the theatre.
Along with better strategies to respond to outbreaks in human populations, we need a stronger focus on surveillance in animals to identify infectious diseases before they pose a risk to human health.
“Wouldn’t it be fantastic if the English syllabus was made up of books that students love?” Australian author Melina Marchetta’s novels have won her many devoted fans and she’s passionate about engaging young people with literature.
A year ago, a military coup toppled Thailand’s elected government. The junta promised elections once a new constitution is adopted, but its authoritarian rule betrays a hostility to real democracy.
The current climate is inviting us to conceive of Baltimore not as a place where the law doesn’t work but, more radically, as an example of Italian legal philosopher Giorgio Agamben’s “state of exception”.
A close look at Hockey’s tax avoidance laws aimed at multinationals like Apple and Google, shows they can avoid them.
Nuclear power isn’t ‘zero-emission’, as many proponents claim. Factor in uranium mining, power plant construction, and other factors and it has similar emissions to wind power. But that’s still lower than fossil fuels.
Three features of a medical school help predict where medical students will eventually work as doctors: selection, the curriculum, and the professionalism of the newly-qualified doctors.
India wants closer engagement with its neighbours as it aspires to become a global manufacturing hub. Narendra Modi’s visits to China, Mongolia and South Korea are all about promoting this agenda.
Proposals for constitutional recognition of Indigenous people are gaining momentum but also raising legal concerns. Here is a form of words to create an advisory council that overcomes those concerns.
Tomorrow at TedX Sydney’s Opera House event, high-profile neurosurgeon Charlie Teo will talk about brain cancer. Last Saturday Teo was on Channel 9’s Sunrise program talking about the often malignant cancer…
The following notes on the future of democratic representation were inspired by Simon Tormey’s The end of representative politics (2015), launched at a Gleebooks event organised by the Sydney Democracy…
Scott McIntyre’s legal challenge against being sacked by SBS will be an interesting test of whether the Fair Work Act offers any safe haven for employees to maintain a personal and political identity.
The federal government’s 2015 budget has done little to restore confidence in the government’s support for science in Australia.
After the controversy surrounding the GP co-payment last year, delivering a boring or “small-target” budget this time around was clearly deliberate. But we shouldn’t gloss over it too quickly.
A growing body of research evidence shows being married greatly increases patients’ chances of being cured of cancer.
On April 30, 2015, South Australian Family First Senator Bob Day published an opinion piece on his website titled Wind turbines’ inconvenient truth. In gotcha-style exuberation, Senator Day noted that…
The big surprise about this year’s health budget was what wasn’t there – billions of dollars in expected savings from the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.
The British Conservative government’s re-election is the latest and perhaps most startling electoral triumph for Australian political strategist Lynton Crosby. So how did he do it?
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Professor of Sociology & Director, Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, University of Sydney
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Lecturer, Sustainable Mobility, University of Sydney
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Professor of History, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer and Coordinator, Health and Medical Humanities, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Sydney
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Professor of Sustainable Future Transport, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor and Psychiatrist, Brain and Mind Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, Sydney Southeast Asia Centre, University of Sydney
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Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Medicine & Health, University of Sydney
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Research Fellow, University of Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Honorary Professor, University of Sydney
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, The Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use, University of Sydney
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Research Fellow, The Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use, University of Sydney
