CASE VIGNETTE – OCTOBER 2019 Not All Prior Injuries Remain Relevant Gary is a 38 year old male, heavily tattooed and with five children to two partners. His eldest son is 18 years of age and has never had a … Read More
GENERAL ADVICE – OCTOBER 2019 How Can We Share Knowledge? Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is both vital for our performance and mandatory for our registration. The basic principle is the acquisition of knowledge and the ability to use it wisely. … Read More
LEAD ARTICLE – OCTOBER 2019 When Pain is a Pain Pain is the predominant symptom in 95% or more of orthopaedic conditions. Patients rarely complain of deformity, functional loss, malalignment or disability. The presenting complaint is almost always pain. The … Read More
LEAD ARTICLE – SEPTEMBER 2019 How Much Explanation is Too Much? The AMA (5) Guides are both prescriptive and proscriptive. Table 17.2 is a perfect example. When assessing a lower limb impairment, there is a serious risk of measuring the … Read More
GENERAL ADVICE – SEPTEMBER 2019 Is Your Expert an Expert? It can be very difficult to know. You could reasonably expect that a specialist holding qualifications from one of the Specialty Colleges would conform. Unfortunately, that is not always the … Read More
CASE VIGNETTE – SEPTEMBER 2019 Complex Injuries in Complex Patients Let’s consider Wendy. She is a 45 year old Papua New Guinean who was born with phocomelia affecting her left upper limb. The major arm bone, the humerus, was congenitally … Read More
CASE VIGNETTE – AUGUST 2019 Lovers’ Heels How many of you have heard of this injury – Lover’s Heels? In simplest terms, it refers to fractures of one or both of the calcanei or heel bones. It is classically sustained … Read More
LEAD ARTICLE – AUGUST 2019 How Much Is A Pro Bono Service Worth? Well, it depends upon which side of the fence you sit. If you are the provider of the pro bono service, there is obviously no financial gain (at … Read More
GENERAL ADVICE – AUGUST 2019 Certification and Recertification The American Board of Independent Medical Examiners (ABIME) is combining with the Australian Orthopaedic Association (AOA) and the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) in conducting training and refresher courses for medicolegal … Read More
GENERAL ADVICE – JULY 2019 Is Your Expert Qualified? I have written previously on the topic of experts straying beyond their field of expertise. There is the Neurosurgeon who is sometimes found to comment upon shoulder injuries. Occupational Physicians stray … Read More