Volume 17 No. 1

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John Murtagh’s General Practice Companion Handbook

*4th edn, xxxviii + 441 pp, paperback (plastic cover) with illustrations, ISBN13: 978-007013628-1, Sydney, McGraw Hill, RRP: AUD150, 2007 (Reprinted 2008). In 2006-2007, the Australian Government estimated that there were 25,564 general practitioners (GPs) in the country.1 There were would be few GPs who did not have a textbook by John Murtagh in their practice… Read more »

By Peter Leggat In   Issue Volume 17 No. 1 Doi No https://doi-ds.org/doilink/05.2023-16829184/JMVH Vol 17 No 1

CDC Health Information for International Travel 2008

Edited by Paul M Arguin, Phyllis E Kozarsky and Christie Reed 2008 Edition (xiv) + 627 pp. Paperback, GBP19, ISBN 978-0-323-04885-9, Atlanta, USA, Elsevier Mosby, 2008 Travel medicine is an area that needs to be informed by accurate information concerning the epidemiology, management and prevention of disease and injury amongst travellers. It is a discipline… Read more »

By Peter Leggat In   Issue Volume 17 No. 1 Doi No https://doi-ds.org/doilink/11.2021-87876672/JMVH Vol 17 No 1

Java Rabble

Fred Skeeles Victoria Park: Hesperian Press; 2008 (ISBN 978-0-85905-419-5: 151 pages)   In September 2000, I reviewed ‘Proud Echo’ by Ronald McKie for Australian Military Medicine1. ‘Proud Echo’ narrated the history of the Battle of Sunda Straits, and of the events that followed, from the accounts of individual sailors. On the night of 28 February… Read more »

By Andrew Robertson In   Issue Volume 17 No. 1 Doi No https://doi-ds.org/doilink/11.2021-25398761/JMVH Vol 17 No 1

Surgeon Captain ‘Sandy’ Ferguson AM VRD RFD RANR RTD

Sandy” Ferguson graduated in Medicine at Melbourne  University in 1942 and following his residency at The Alfred Hospital was commissioned as a Surgeon Lieutenant in the Royal Australian Naval  Reserve in 1943. Prior to studying medicine he had tried to commence a naval career and having been accepted to join the Naval College at the… Read more »

By Michael Dowsett In   Issue Volume 17 No. 1 Doi No https://doi-ds.org/doilink/11.2021-71576696/JMVH Vol 17 No 1

Bruce James Cheffins, Surgeon Lieutenant RAN 1965-1971

Dr Bruce James Cheffins died at the Fremantle Hospital on 14 March 2008, as the result of a vehicle accident.   He left behind his wife Andrae, sons Peter and Richard, daughters Bridget and Susie, and four grandchildren.   His RAN service was noteworthy for his compassion and leadership aboard HMAS Perth (DDG 38, Captain P.H. Doyle… Read more »

By Neil Westphalen In   Issue Volume 17 No. 1 Doi No https://doi-ds.org/doilink/11.2021-44155312/JMVH Vol 17 No 1

Submarine escape and rescue: a brief history

Reprinted with the kind permission of the editors of the Seapower Centre – Australia The disaster which befell the Russian submarine Kursk in August 2000 caught the world’s attention and became a galvanising event in drawing renewed focus on submarine safety in the new century. Public empathy worldwide seemed to be driven by the belief… Read more »

By Nick Stewart In   Issue Volume 17 No. 1 Doi No https://doi-ds.org/doilink/11.2021-21257634/JMVH Vol 17 No 1

Applying the RAAKERS™ framework in an analysis of the command and control arrangements of the ADF Garrison Health Support

Australian Defence Force Garrison Health Support operate in a complex relationship between a geography-based National Support Area (NSA) health care model, in which most of the medical resources and staff are owned by the single services; deployable capabilities, also owned by the Single services; and a National health care system that provides primary, secondary and… Read more »

By GA Durant-Law and SM Burnett In   Issue Volume 17 No. 1 Doi No https://doi-ds.org/doilink/11.2021-59374313/JMVH Vol 17 No 1

Plastic Kiwis – New Zealanders and the development of a specialty

Abstract Background The First World War saw the evolution and development of three great surgical specialties: orthopaedic surgery, thoracic surgery and plastic/maxillofacial surgery. This last specialty came of age during the carnage of some of the bloodiest battles in history and required a close relationship between plastic surgeon and dentist in the management of facial… Read more »

By Robert Love , Tom Brooking and Andrew Bamji In   Issue Volume 17 No. 1 Doi No https://doi-ds.org/doilink/11.2021-73875116/JMVH Vol 17 No 1

Logistic aspects of a deployable molecular microbiology laboratory

A molecular diagnostic laboratory was deployed overseas in response to a suspected emerging infectious disease in Sri Lanka in early 2008. The equipment and procedures used are established technology, well within the capability of a large hospital laboratory. However, the main obstacles to operating these systems in a resource-limited, tropical environment are better understood with… Read more »

By Vesanthia Thevanesam , Joanne Montgomerya , Indika Jayasinghe , Adam Merritt and Timothy J Inglis In   Issue Volume 17 No. 1 Doi No https://doi-ds.org/doilink/11.2021-49264333/JMVH Vol 17 No 1

Letters to the Editor

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” in Vol 16 Number 3 What is refreshing is that the alternatives brought up were in fact debated by the Committee in South Australia that… Read more »

By Robert Atkinson In   Issue Volume 17 No. 1

President’s message

I am writing this message several days after the completion of another highly successful AMMA conference. Held in Hobart over the weekend 17-19 October, some 300 delegates attended, supported by over 30 trade exhibitors. As always, the quality of the papers that were read was exceptionally high, and this is a tribute to the expertise… Read more »

By Russell Schedlich In   Issue Volume 17 No. 1

Inside this Edition

This Edition of the Journal of Military and Veterans Health has an array of papers considering operational and strategic issues confronting military health services in this region. Infectious disease has always been a significant cause of non-battle casualties throughout the history of warfare and the more recent history of peacekeeping and humanitarian missions.  Being able… Read more »

By Russell Schedlich In   Issue Volume 17 No. 1