“Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with golden lacquer. It teaches us to embrace damage and flaws.” — ManGill. For most of my adult life I have helped repair the sick. Many had their lives suddenly shattered and altered forever. It was a job at which I was quite good. Recently, the… Read more

On 9th September 1896 Frankfurt surgeon Ludwig Rehn, decided to operate on a critically ill patient. The 21 year old male had received a single stab wound to the left chest the day before. He was moribund. Rehn opened the left chest and encountered an actively bleeding 1.5cm hole in the right ventricle. Current surgical… Read more

“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea…” Karen Blixen This summer the beaches of South Australia have been strangely different. Algal bloom looms over them. You can track the impact the bloom and the associated brevetoxins on websites, Apps and Facebook groups. The situation seems to change almost hourly, but… Read more