“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

“Since 1986 they’re has been a little piece of Chernobyl in all os us…” Mika Karu This weekend is the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident. The explosion of the retractor lead to the largest ever isolation and containment response ever undertaken. However, not everyone was isolated and not everything was contained. Massive clouds… Read more

“A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck to it’s task…” Leonardo da Vinci I often include this image in my presentations for the South Australian Audit of Surgical Mortality. I allude to our audit program being the canary in the coal mine for excessive or concerning surgical outcomes. John Haldane was a Scottish… Read more