Dr Anne Malatt
Anne has been a doctor for over 30 years and an eye surgeon for 25 years. She loves her work, her patients, teaching and writing, for she loves people and life. Anne feels great joy in being able to share her lived experience and wisdom, that other people may learn and grow too.
Reflections on Christmas Day
It is the day after Christmas here in Australia and still Christmas Day elsewhere in the world. I love that I have friends in England, Ireland and America who...
Mentors, Sponsors and Gender Inequity
I recently attended a conference and heard a presentation delivered to female surgeons which addressed the subject of mentors, sponsors and gender inequity in medicine.
These were the facts presented:
Mentors
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The purpose of food: to satisfy the senses or to nourish...
I recently read an article on the use of food as medicine in cancer patients … it was complicated and left me feeling confused, when I had not been...
From being bored to enriching life
I work as an eye doctor and people sometimes ask me: Don’t you get bored with what you do? Well the answer is: No, I don’t! I love what...
World Mental Health Day – true health is for everyone, every day
It was recently (10/10) World Mental Health Day. This is a great initiative, and to be celebrated for raising our awareness of things that need to be at the...
Why half our patients don’t tell their doctors life-threatening details
I recently read an article stating that nearly half of patients who were surveyed online admitted they don’t tell doctors potentially life-threatening details of their history. This figure may...
The Art of Repose
I have learned a lot about the art of repose lately. I learned it by breaking my big toe, which was a painful way to learn a lesson, but...
When doctors make mistakes
Doctors make mistakes. No-one really likes to admit it or think about it or talk about it, but it happens all the time.
We are imperfect people, working with other...
Are you trapped in time, or surrendered to space?
I used to live life ruled by time. I was not a very obedient subject, and was always running late, but it ruled me, nonetheless.
My problem with time became...
Self-care when the doctor is the patient
It is well known that doctors generally make terrible patients. We self-diagnose, self-treat, delay getting help from an appropriately trained person who is not us, and when we do,...
