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Achieving equity in the Australian healthcare system
Author(s) -
Atkinson Robert N
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2004.tb05934.x
Subject(s) - equity (law) , citation , library science , health care , psychology , sociology , political science , computer science , law
“It often has been said that it is not work but worry that kills.” This statement, from an early 20thcentury JAMA editorial entitled Physicians and longevity, argued that hard work and a resolute focus on unravelling the unknown in medicine were rewarded with living to an advanced age. Paragons of this phenomenon included Virchow, the famed pathologist (nearly 81 years), Harvey, discoverer of the circulation (79 years), and the French surgeon Ambroise Paré, who, “in spite of a life of trials and years of unhealthy camp life, lived to be nearly 75”.