Sarah Giles
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- 1/4/2011
A new locum for the new year
For the next two weeks of Australian locuming, I’ll be working in suburban Perth while house/dog-sitting for friends. I do, however, have a confession to make: I haven’t really done much city medicine and it’s harder work than I anticipated. - 12/21/2010
'I swear I can see the tragedy in their eyes'
The Christmas Islanders describe waking up to screaming. The screams of people crammed into a boat, fleeing horrific pasts in search of a better future, but met by angry seas and rocks, only metres from their destination. They tell of frantic efforts to get help from the Australian Navy for over an hour but of getting no reply. - 12/20/2010
Inside the Christmas Island tragedy
A boat of asylum seekers crashed into the cliffs of Christmas Island during a period of horrendous sea swells and torrential rain. I have never been involved in the medical response to a disaster, let alone one of this scale. - 12/12/2010
The sunny side of Christmas
In reading some of my postings to this blog, I come across as a little gloomy. I need to set the record straight: I love my job! I love locuming! - 12/5/2010
When an island isn’t paradise
I can’t imagine what it would be like to risk my life to flee a country—to leave everything behind to get on a boat that might or might not bring me to another land. Another “country” where I would be detained for months on end and basically be treated as though I were in prison. - 11/29/2010
All I want for Christmas is fresh milk
I often joke that in rural/remote medicine we have a “golden day” in trauma rather than a “golden hour.” Here on Christmas Island, with recent bad weather and volcanic ash blowing in from Krakatau in Indonesia, it seems to have become the golden 72 hours. - 11/17/2010
My current locum redefines 'isolated'
- 10/19/2010
Life is what happens while you’re working
- 10/14/2010
Why the vegetarian embraced the hunter
- 9/30/2010
From clueless to competent
