Book Review: Average 70kg D**khead: Motivational Lessons from an Ex-Army Special Forces Doctor
Average 70kg D**khead: Motivational Lessons from an Ex-Army Special Forces Doctor By Dan Pronk. Fremantle: Vivid Publishing, 2019. ISBN 978-1925846744. Reviewed by Darren Cronshaw Warning: This review delves into trauma issues that may be distressing to some readers. Support is available through your Chain of Command, Chaplaincy or Health Centre, Lifeline 131144 or Open Arms… Read more »
Book Reviews – Black Hawk Down
It is an appropriate time to review this book published 12 months ago, as one of the participants of the “Battle of the Black Sea”, then SFC Bob Mabry, is the keynote speaker at this years AMMA conference. CAPT Bob Mabry MC USA will speak on this battle engagement. On Oct 03 1993, “Task Force… Read more »
Book Reviews – Proud Echo
On the evening of 28th February 1942, the Australian light cruiser, PERTH, and the American heavy cruiser, HOUSTON, having survived the disastrous Battle of the Java Sea, sailed from the port of Batavia to force a passage through Sunda Strait to the Indian Ocean, where they hoped to join with other Allied naval units. During… Read more »
Book Reviews – The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A tale of murder, madness and the Oxford English dictionary
For a total change of pace, Simon Winchester’s ‘The Surgeon of Crowthorne’ is a beguiling and erudite true story. The story centres around two distinguished-looking Victorians, both learned and serious, yet from very different worlds: Dr James Murray, a towering figure of British scholarship and editor of the great Oxford English Dictionary; and Dr W…. Read more »
Book Reviews – Vic Jeffery
The U-Boat Far From Home. The epic voyage of U-862 to Australia and New Zealand by David Stevens I was delighted when I learnt that the Department of Defence’s Director of Naval Historical Studies, David Stevens, was to write a book on the German submarine offensive against Australia during World War Two. A former naval… Read more »
Book Reviews – Andrew Robertson
SSN- Strategies of Submarine Warfare Tom Clancy Harper Collins: London 1996 This is a fiction work by Tom Clancy based on ‘SSN’. a CD-ROM game by Simon and Schuster Interactive. The book looks at 15 different submarine scenarios based on a limited regional war between China and the United States over the Spratly Islands in… Read more »
Book Reviews – Vic Jeffery
Few Survived. A History of Submarine Disasters Edwin Gray Since the first submarines of the 18th century through to 1995, some 1761 submarines were lost world wide. 313 by accident or error, and the remaining 1,148 being war losses. This is the first comprehensive account of every peacetime submarine disaster from 1774 to the present… Read more »
Lessons Learned: The Australian Military and Tropical Medicine
P Leggat *Quail GG. Lessons Learned: The Australian Military and Tropical Medicine. Newport: Big Sky Publishing, 2017. ISBN 978-1-925520-22-4. Hardback. 254 pp AUD34.99 (also available as an eBook) Throughout the history of modern war, tropical diseases have played a significant role in determining the outcome of various military campaigns through the ages. For example, malaria… Read more »
Logistics in The Falklands War
Captain Arthur M. Smith The recent Australian Defence White Paper 2016 defined the unique security challenges facing thenation. Strategic planning within the document includes recognition of the regional and global nature of the nation’s security interests, and the very different sets of challenges that are created for the defence force by state, and also non-state actors such as terrorists…. Read more »
High G Flight: Physiological Effects and Countermeasures
P. Leggat High G flight is a significant challenge facing crew in high performance military aircraft, spacecraft, and in some other settings, such as acrobatic and tourismbased fighter jet aircraft in the civilian sector. It may also be experienced in high G simulators and commercial fighter jet tourist experiences. G is defined as “a dimensionless ratio which expresses the applied acceleration that… Read more »
Constant Care
Reviewed by CAPT RMSG John Knight (Retired) The subtitle of the book is “The Royal Australian Navy Health Services, 1915 to 2002.” The dedication is to the memory of all Medical and Dental Officers and Sick Berth Staff who were killed in action or died on active service in World War Two. John Jeppesen was well known… Read more »
Framework for a Public Health Emergency Operations Centre
In 2013, the Public Health Emergency Operations Centre Network (EOC-NET) of the World Health Organization (WHO) embarked on a project to develop a framework for public health emergency operation centres (EOCs). This included systematic reviews of public health EOCs (PHEOCs) as well as EOC-related plans and procedures; communication technology and infrastructure; minimum datasets and standards; and training and exercises.1 These were conducted in parallel… Read more »
The Practical Compendium of Immunisations for International Travel
In the context of protecting travellers going abroad, “vaccination is a highly effective method of preventing certain infectious diseases”.1 At last here is a practical manual for travel immunisations which is relevant for this region, and is an ideal companion in the clinic for The Australian Immunisation Handbook2 and similar guidelines for the region. The Practical Compendium of Immunisations for International Travel brings… Read more »
Textbook of Adult Emergency Medicine* Peter Cameron, George Jelinek, Anne-Marie Kelly, Anthony F.T. Brown and Mark Little
*4th edn, 1104 pp, paperback with illustrations, ISBN: 978-0-7020-5335-1. Sydney, Churchill Livingstone (an imprint of Elsevier), RRP: $114.74, 2014. The International Federation for Emergency Medicine definition of emergency medicine is provided in the Introduction of the Textbook of Adult Emergency Medicine, which defines the areas as: “a field of practice based on the knowledge and… Read more »
Pioneers of Medicine without a Nobel Prize* Gilbert Thompson (Editor)
*Thompson G (Ed). Pioneers of Medicine without a Nobel Prize. London: Imperial College Press, 2014. ISBN 978-1-78326-383-7. Hardback. 296 pp USD128 (also available as softcover and eBook) The Nobel Prize was established in 1901 using a bequest from Alfred Nobel and is probably the most highly regarded international award. Nobel prizes are currently awarded annually… Read more »
Starlight: An Australian Army Doctor in Vietnam
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Epidemiology
Petra Buttner and Reinhold Muller* *1st edn, (xxiv) + 600 pp, paperback with extensive illustrations, Oxford, Oxford University Press, RRP: $83.95, 2011. ISBN: 9780195573893 The field of epidemiology is a science and it remains “one of the many contributors to guiding action” in public health.1 The field is crowded with published books with over 9500… Read more »
Toxicology Handbook
Lindsay Murray, Frank Daly, Mark Little and Mike Cadogan* *2nd edn, xii + 529 pp, paperback with illustrations, ISBN: 978-0-7295-3939-5. Sydney, Churchill Livingstone (Imprint of Elsevier), RRP: $69.95, 2010. There are many excellent toxicology textbooks available internationally, including the recently published 9th edition of Goldfrank’s Toxicologic Emergencies.1 These are wonderful resources for those seeking a… Read more »
Creating Environmental and Occupational Health
Derek R. Smith* *1st edition, xxi+170 pp, paperback with illustrations (available as Hardcover), ISBN 978-1921364129, Sydney, Darlington Press, 2010. Journal publications and their citations have become the common currency of academia, which has led to the development of such measures as the h-index and the m-parameter.1 In the field of environmental and occupational health (EOH),… Read more »
General Practice: The Integrative Approach
General Practice: The Integrative Approach is a contemporary colossus of Australian textbooks of general practice. For GPs wanting a wide-ranging general practice reference, then the first edition of the General Practice: The Integrative Approach is one of the most current of the major textbooks and one which is highly relevant to general practice in Australia…. Read more »
2025 AMMA Conference
