“I was the first person in my family to go to university and into medicine,” writes FACEM Dr Andy Tagg. “Everything I knew about being a doctor came from watching fictional doctors on TV shows.”
All in Memoir
ASEM is gone but won't be forgotten
The Australasian Society for Emergency Medicine (ASEM) achieved a lot in its (more than) 40-year history. Now that it’s gone, one former member hopes the ASEM’s legacy will not be forgotten.
Can a medical education event be “life-changing”? A former sceptic reflects on the ACME course
Contrary to her expectations, FACEM Dr Kristin Boyle discovers that attending an ACME event does, in fact, change her life.
Critical care in the land of beautiful chitenges
ACEM trainee, Dr Lara Bowell, describes her experience working in rural Zambia during the global pandemic.
Identity, social justice and Voice
“It was in the same dust with the other excluded kids outside the classroom that I grew to understand I lived in a segregated community,” writes Sam Beattie, nurse practitioner and proud Ngunnawal/Dhudhuroa/Wurundjeri woman. “I became a nurse as an act of social justice.”
The sliding-door moments of life in remote and retrieval medicine
In a throwback from the print YourED archives, Dr Richard Johnson describes the defining experiences that have influenced his work in emergency medicine.
The doctor on the mountain
Dr David Lawson spent a season as the doctor on Mount Hutt in Aotearoa New Zealand, 1600 metres above sea level.
Missionaries, mercenaries, and misfits
In 1985, Dr Andrew Walby arrived, in 44-degree heat, at the glorious art deco Mildura Base Hospital to begin a three month rotation in the emergency department.