Medicine

The Missing Medical Tent by Anthony R. Moore

May 1979, no. 10

Among the most fashionable complaints today is a complaint about your doctor, one which has spread even to the profession itself. In fact, for a really scarifying complaint about doctors, you should hear some doctors; not that one is very likely to unless you are his receptionist catching a scrap or two at morning tea, or his spouse later in the day.

Everyone in and around the profession knows that there is something terribly wrong with the quality, and the delivery, of applied medicine. Anthony Moore, whose book looks into the matter, certainly knows it.

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Cannabis – A Discussion Paper by By Government of South Australia

by By F. Crowley and L. Cartwright •

May 1979, no. 10

F. Crowley and L. Cartwright review ' Cannabis – A Discussion Paper' by the Government of South Australia

The approach taken by the South Australian Royal Commission into the Non-Medical Use of Drugs is to be highly commended. This commission was appointed in January 1977, under the chairmanship of Professor Ronald Sackville, Professor of Law in the University of New South Wales, nearly nine months ahead of the Federal Commission chaired by Mr. Justice Williams and the New South Wales Commission, chaired by Mr Justice Woodward. The South Australian Commission includes Earle Hackett, Deputy Director of Adelaide’s Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science, and Richard Nies, Head of the School of Social Studies at the South Australian Institute of Technology.

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