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Medication complication a bitter pill

Heckler PICTURE two nights before Christmas 1990. A hot, dry summer in Sydney, a dearth of organ donors and a 50-year-old professor connected to a pump that, with the aid of helium and very skilful medical...

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Seeing red over use of intoxicating wine studies

Heckler Hardly a day goes by without the media enlightening us with some ground-breaking new research to guide us along the rocky road of life.

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Super what? No fun in fund for this contributor

Heckler I OPENED my superannuation statement today and was rendered speechless, something which, as people who know me could attest, has not happened since the incident concerning the inadvisable quantity of...

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Medicinal cons are hard to swallow

Heckler I LOVE drugs. Adore them. Best thing since sliced bread. Headache? Sweet, sweet codeine. Runny nose? Sneezing? Antihistamine and pseudo-ephedrine.

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Defence of substance cuts no ice

Heckler CAN we please get rid of the defence of ''I've been on drugs since I was 15 and it's affected my mind''?

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Abstaining throws up tricky issues

Heckler THE Great Vomit of Y2K was the last time I ever drank champagne or wine. I threw up so violently I lost a contact lens.

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Just treat me like dirt, I'm a med student

Heckler I FEEL a bit duped. I worked hard at high school to get into medicine and have been rewarded for my efforts by six years of an apprenticeship that I have for the most part endured rather than enjoyed.

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Getting the wrong end of the stick

Heckler Until recently I thought there were a limited number of types in this world - you know, leg men, boob men, bum women, and so forth. But I've started noticing a new type: stick men ... and women.

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No more schlock'n'toll

Heckler I am sick to death of hearing that this geriatric band or that has-been singer is arriving on our shores (always during summer so the arthritis doesn't act up) to provide us with 90 minutes (if the...

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Sweet treat mean streets

Heckler Why is it that strangers feel that they can give my 18-month-old child lollies? At a restaurant recently, halfway through our meal a waiter walked up and handed my 18-month-old a chewy sweet.

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Just act normal...

Heckler I'M THE normal guy you sometimes see on Sydney's trains. I'm 24 and I wear T-shirts with writing on them and have an iPod attached to my ears, always.

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Bedside manners

Heckler I just wanted to reply to your complaint about waiting in our Emergency Department last night. It is true that it was noisy and that we took a while to come and see you.

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HSC is just a prelude to Schoolies

Heckler IT'S HSC exam time, and every frazzled year 12 parent knows what's next: Schoolies. This ''rite of passage'' to celebrate finishing school means, in true Australian tradition, partying big time.