Alan Garner
@garnalan.bsky.social
Clinical A/Professor, University of Sydney | Trauma Director, Nepean Hospital | Trauma Physician, Royal Hobart Hospital
You were fortunate to survive that length of wait. One in 82 don’t if I remember the data.
November 14, 2025 at 9:42 AM
You were fortunate to survive that length of wait. One in 82 don’t if I remember the data.
It is so good to know that things like this exist in the world
November 11, 2025 at 8:52 AM
It is so good to know that things like this exist in the world
Yes it’s hard and the community helps.
I spent the last 4 days at a medical conference with 800 critical care doctors. I saw zero masks but mine.
I spent the last 4 days at a medical conference with 800 critical care doctors. I saw zero masks but mine.
November 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Yes it’s hard and the community helps.
I spent the last 4 days at a medical conference with 800 critical care doctors. I saw zero masks but mine.
I spent the last 4 days at a medical conference with 800 critical care doctors. I saw zero masks but mine.
And stating the obvious, none of this will improve until aged and disability care, hospital care and community health care is all funded and managed as an integrated whole rather than across layers of govt. It is all connected. The pandemic highlighted this, and no lessons were learned - again.
November 10, 2025 at 8:44 AM
And stating the obvious, none of this will improve until aged and disability care, hospital care and community health care is all funded and managed as an integrated whole rather than across layers of govt. It is all connected. The pandemic highlighted this, and no lessons were learned - again.
Dumping NDIS participants in Emergency Departments is becoming increasingly common. But they don’t get admitted to the hospital as there is often no acute issue.
So they stay in ED for days whilst social workers desperately look for alternatives. Appalling care and another stressor EDs done need.
So they stay in ED for days whilst social workers desperately look for alternatives. Appalling care and another stressor EDs done need.
November 10, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Dumping NDIS participants in Emergency Departments is becoming increasingly common. But they don’t get admitted to the hospital as there is often no acute issue.
So they stay in ED for days whilst social workers desperately look for alternatives. Appalling care and another stressor EDs done need.
So they stay in ED for days whilst social workers desperately look for alternatives. Appalling care and another stressor EDs done need.
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As a doctor, I have been really angry about this!
November 7, 2025 at 2:39 PM
As a doctor, I have been really angry about this!
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That’s why we’re so pleased to welcome the International WELL Building Institute to the Making the invisible visible campaign - a global call to action to treat indoor air quality like the public health priority it is, and make the air safer for everyone to breathe.
November 8, 2025 at 5:40 AM
That’s why we’re so pleased to welcome the International WELL Building Institute to the Making the invisible visible campaign - a global call to action to treat indoor air quality like the public health priority it is, and make the air safer for everyone to breathe.
Sartorial as always
November 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Sartorial as always
You have quite a way with words.
I will forever have them in my mind when I hear his name - so appropriate.
I will forever have them in my mind when I hear his name - so appropriate.
November 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
You have quite a way with words.
I will forever have them in my mind when I hear his name - so appropriate.
I will forever have them in my mind when I hear his name - so appropriate.