Author name: Tim Leeuwenburg

Rural doctor living on Kangaroo Island with interested in emergency medicine, anaesthesia and trauma. Currently a senior specialist (retrieval) with the Central Australian Retrieval Service, Chair of www.SandpiperAustralia.org and Ass/Prof Aeromedical Retrieval

SMACC2013 – critical illness does not respect geography

About 6 months ago I posted about the ‘end of the medical conference‘ after a fairly humdrum experience at Rural Medicine Australia 2012 in Perth. This negativity was picked up by others, notably EM-IM Doc SMACC2013 has changed all that. No doubt Minh over at prehospitalmed.com and the lifeinthefastlane.com crew will feed out snippets, so

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SMACC Day One

I am pleased to say that day one of SMACC2013 has not failed to deliver – blistering talks from the likes of Joe Lex, Scott Weingart, John Myburgh and Cliff Reid were much appreciated by the audience. Highlights for me were Weingart’s suggestion of the sweet harmonies of Nine Inch Nails for trauma RSI (just

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Could the last doctor leaving rural SA close the door?

Interesting week in Adelaide – the new ‘South Australia State logo’ was unveiled at the Festival Centre. I managed to get along and, along with many others, was significantly underwhelmed. Criticisms are that SA looks like the largest open cut mine, visible frm space…or a series of doors….or a Pope’s hat. Regardless, it has got

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