Tell Matilda all about it…
In March 2020 none of us could have accurately foreseen what would unfold over the next few years. Looking back, the closest thing we could identify was the post-World War I influenza pandemic. And, that was over a century earlier. The 1918-19 influenza pandemic saw...
The life of Dr Robin William Smallwood
Dr Robin Smallwood was Dean, Faculty of Anaesthetists of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (1986-87). In this blog post, his wife Rosalind Smallwood, and colleagues, Dr Geoff Gutteridge and Professor Barry Baker AM, remember his great contributions to the...
A brief history of obstetric anaesthesia in Australia
For History Month 2021, we asked Prof Alicia Dennis to talk to us about the history of obstetric anaesthesia in Australia. Prof Dennis had already prepared a presentation for the Launceston Historical Society’s Pugh Day Lecture. Restrictions in place, due to Covid-19,...