Dr Anne Malatt

I used to drink a lot of alcohol, and when I say a lot, I mean a bottle or two of wine a day, not just a glass or...

We are all part of the ‘system’. In truth, we are part of several living systems, which form a complete and interconnected whole. As doctors, we have been trained to...

Albert Einstein is said to have said: “Everything is energy”. We are willing to accept this as a possibility or even as fact when it comes to science in its many and varied forms, but we tend to draw the line when it comes to us. If everything is energy, and it is, what part of that ‘everything’ does not include the human body?

Many of us are counting down the days to Christmas and the end of the year, and the only thing that is keeping us going is the thought of...

I recently attended the inaugural conference of Australian Women of Medicine, in Melbourne on 26 November 2017. It was a wonderful day, and I trust it will be the...

THERE has recently been a move to bring medical education under a centralised umbrella.(1) With this comes a move to increase the powers of the Australian Health Practitioner Registration...

Before you dismiss this article on sleep as irrelevant to or not possible for you, just give it a go. I used to be a terrible insomniac, and have...

The sexual abuse of women is once again in the news as the behaviour of a Hollywood producer is brought into the light. But are we shining that same...

We tend to think of taking a break as something that happens later…at morning tea, lunchtime, in the evenings, on the weekends, during our holidays. A break is often...

Mandatory reporting, or forcing doctors to report to the relevant authorities if one of their colleagues comes to them for help and is deemed to be impaired, was overtly...