One of the important lessons that all military health personnel should learn early on is that, as originally expostulated by George Santayana, “those who cannot remember the past are condemned…

On 14 September 1915, Tasmania’s Seventh Field Ambulance C Section relieved the New Zealanders who were in charge of the dressing station under Hill 971, to the left of the…

n 2007-2008, Defence Health Service (DHS) personnel and the growing band of contracted health providers cared for 53,140 permanent Australian Defence Force (ADF) members and 24,885 reserve ADF members1, not…

Dear Sir I read with great interest a most commendable paper by LTCOL Kerry Clifford on Defence Health Service or Health Advice Agency: “An alternative reality to the Stevens Review”…

Dear Sir, I refer to the recent JMVH article1 regarding the 2004 Stevens Review2 with respect to command of the ADF’s health services. Military health care is similar to civilian…

At the recent announcement of the changes to the Single Service Chiefs of the Australian Defence Force, the Minister for Defence, The Hon Joel Fitzgibbon MP made the following comments:…

Over the last year, the former Australian Minister for Defence, Dr Brendan Nelson, has announced that there will be a relaxation on certain age requirements and physical health standards for…

This is the last issue of the Australian Military Medicine Association journal to be published in the current format and under the name Australian Military Medicine. Australian Military Medicine as…

Russ Schedlich Early casualty management and evacuation are brought into sharp focus by the original articles in this issue of AMM. Starting in the hospital environment, Payne et al studied…