How to improve what foods you eat for longevity and reduce your risk of chronic preventable disease. — Before you buy supplements and super-foods or start binging on beans, I’d recommend you go for the low hanging fruit! With a plethora of promises and a world of information overload, think how hard it would be to conduct a study to prove that adding turmeric to your daily diet…

Read this Creative Writing piece from the newspaper front page article, page 12, of When I’m an Entrepreneur. — In a world where 22% of founders in Australia are female, and only 2.2% of US venture capital funding goes to female founder companies, female entrepreneurship is critical for the post-Covid economic recovery. Dyah, was inspired at age four by a book about a young entrepreneur, setting a solid foundation…

Don’t call me Mister, call me Doctor! Honorifics or Horrorifics? — The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS), formed in 1927, has finally passed a resolution to use gender-neutral titles. Surgeons will now be referred to by RACS as Doctor or by academic titles like Professor, breaking the anachronistic title of Mister for surgeons. While the resolution only applies to official…

Find out more about WIS — I recall a patient saying with surprise when she met me — “I was expecting a woman with grey hair and a bun”. At least she was expecting a woman. …

I don’t mean because you can use ChatGPT to write something for you. I mean because you can use it to generate new ideas. As a writer, I often want to change my first draft, several times. Even if I don’t like the response generated by ChatGPT the process could…

Will The Queen’s example change our thoughts about working in our ‘retirement’? Queen Elizabeth has shown us how you are never too old to work in some capacity. Adaptions and adjustments might be required, but contributions to society and the paid workforce can continue well beyond the retirement age of…

How does surgical training compare to astronaut training? — As I researched what it takes to become an astronaut for my latest kid’s picture book, When I’m an Astronaut, I realized there were some similarities (and differences) to my own surgical training, beyond being a woman in a male-dominated field. I don’t just mean whilst operating; you can’t eat…

Mentoring girls in STEM School was a long time ago, but how I loved Physics and Mathematics. Everything science that was given to me at school, I devoured. In the days before computers, the internet, and extension classes, this meant my work was finished in the first ten minutes of class, followed by boredom…

Lessons from a Famous Female Entrepreneur. The seven keys to success. Josephine Cochran invented the dishwasher in her woodshed, filing a patent for her “Dish Washing Machine” in 1885, one month before Carl Benz applied for his patent for a gas engine vehicle, (the car). This was a time when women’s educational opportunities were limited, and they generally didn’t work once…