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Whose Side Are You On? Complexities Arising from the Non-Combatant Status of Military Medical Personnel

Originally published in Monash Bioethics Review, 2023 Jan 11. doi: 10.1007/s40592-022-00168-2 Abstract Since the mid-1800s, clergy, doctors, other clinicians, and military personnel who specifically facilitate their work have been designated…

A Life of Service to Veterans

Originally published: 13 May 2014 by Sydney Local Health District, NSW Government As an 18-year-old, when Norton Duckmanton watched his friend fatally crash a Mosquito dive bomber during Pacific War…

Experiences of a Prisoner of War: World War 2 In Germany

Re-Print Stephenson Vol 9 No 1 E Stephenson2 On 16 December 1943, I was sitting at the Navigator’s seat in a very noisy Lancaster bomber over Berlin when something occurred…

The Battle of the River Plate: Excerpts from the Diary of Surgeon Commander Jack Cussen RN, PMO of HMS EXETER

Reprinted from the Journal of the Royal Naval Medical Service Commentary HMS EXETER, the second of two York Class heavy cruisers, was launched in 1929. She had a displacement of…

Assessing Medical Suitability for Employment and Deployment in the ADF

Assessing Medical Suitability for Employment and Deployment in the ADF Commander Neil Westphalen, Royal Australian Navy Reserve Introduction This article follows previous papers by the author, regarding occupational and environmental…

Command versus technical authority: lessons from the 2nd General Health Battalion

MC Reade, C Flint, S Kennaway, N Duff, B McCall Introduction Historically, military medical units were commanded by senior doctors. All of the renowned hospitals that form the heritage of…

Occupational and environmental health in the ADF

Commander Neil Westphalen Introduction ADF personnel are arguably exposed to the most diverse range of occupational and environmental hazards of any Australian workforce. Controlling these hazards is complicated not only…

The Mosquito can be More Dangerous than the Mortar Round – The Obligations of Command

A. M. Smith, C. Hooper We must be prepared to meet malaria by training as strict and earnest as that against enemy troops. We must be as practiced in our…

THE “TRIANGLE OF DEATH” Medical Sustainability in Expeditionary Sea-Based Operations

Reprinted with permission of the Naval War College Review Captain Smith, a frequent contributor to the Naval War College Review, is adjunct professor in both the Department of Surgery and…

The Legacy of the Anaesthesia ‘Events’ at Pearl Harbor, 7th December 1941.

Reprinted from: Crowhurst J. The historical significance of anaesthesia events at Pearl Harbor. Anaesthesia and intensive care. 2014 Jul;42:21-4. Crowhurst JA. The Legacy of the Anaesthesia ‘Events’ at Pearl Harbor,…