Trauma and Age

This session presents a series of medical cases with important clinical caveats. Additionally, a contextual discussion follows, focussing on the social determinants of health and their integral importance in delivering high quality care. The practice of acute medicine requires many skills to ensure the delivery of the highest quality care. Clinical knowledge and skill are…

Gender and Acute Coronary Syndrome

This session presents a series of medical cases with important clinical caveats. Additionally, a contextual discussion follows, focussing on the social determinants of health and their integral importance in delivering high quality care. The practice of acute medicine requires many skills to ensure the delivery of the highest quality care. Clinical knowledge and skill are…

Connecting to Homelessness

This session presents a series of medical cases with important clinical caveats. Additionally, a contextual discussion follows, focussing on the social determinants of health and their integral importance in delivering high quality care. The practice of acute medicine requires many skills to ensure the delivery of the highest quality care. Clinical knowledge and skill are…

Delivering Change Now

The climate emergency is the greatest existential threat of our time and as trusted leaders within our communities’, healthcare providers need to take urgent actions. The challenge is analogous to the threat posed to our patients by the Tobacco industry. This session is all about reducing the large carbon footprint of healthcare by moving away…

The Next Industrial Revolution

The climate emergency is the greatest existential threat of our time and as trusted leaders within our communities’, healthcare providers need to take urgent actions. The challenge is analogous to the threat posed to our patients by the Tobacco industry. This session is all about reducing the large carbon footprint of healthcare by moving away…

Powering Healthcare with Renewable Energy

The climate emergency is the greatest existential threat of our time and as trusted leaders within our communities’, healthcare providers need to take urgent actions. The challenge is analogous to the threat posed to our patients by the Tobacco industry. This session is all about reducing the large carbon footprint of healthcare by moving away…

A National Sustainable Healthcare Program

The climate emergency is the greatest existential threat of our time and as trusted leaders within our communities’, healthcare providers need to take urgent actions. The challenge is analogous to the threat posed to our patients by the Tobacco industry. This session is all about reducing the large carbon footprint of healthcare by moving away…

Can Healthcare Quit the Fossil Fuel Addiction?

The climate emergency is the greatest existential threat of our time and as trusted leaders within our communities’, healthcare providers need to take urgent actions. The challenge is analogous to the threat posed to our patients by the Tobacco industry. This session is all about reducing the large carbon footprint of healthcare by moving away…

…Dying

What if we spoke about dying with the openness and curiosity of children? How can we unlearn our social discomfort on tackling the one thing that will inevitably happen to every person? This panel will meander through humour, kindness, benefits and burdens, all in the name of helping healthcare have a good public-facing chat about…

…(Dis)ability

Rachel challenges us to think deeply about the language of pathology we use when describing disability. Studies prove that the language used at diagnosis, or when delivering life changing medical information, or to describe disability or difference is vitally important and so often, used with negative outcomes. I teach that using effective communication, is just…