Gerben Keijzers

Jun 16, 2024 | mja.com.au | Amy Sweeny |Gerben Keijzers |Dinesh Palipana |John Gerrard

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (11): 579-581. || doi: 10.5694/mja2.52321 Published online: 17 June 2024 After the World Health Organization declared the international coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic on 11 March 2020, Australian governments introduced stringent public health measures, including stay‐at‐home orders, school and business closures, and interstate border closures.

Mar 11, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Philip Jones |Amy Sweeny |Grace Branjerdporn |Gerben Keijzers

1 INTRODUCTION Following its initial outbreak in 2019, the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic spread rapidly, triggering the implementation of prolonged lockdowns, travel restrictions, and the closure of businesses, schools, and public services. This has raised concerns over adverse mental health consequences, including increased rates of anxiety and depression (Zavlis et al., 2022), suicidal ideation, post-traumatic stress symptoms, and insomnia (Chen et al., 2021).

Apr 23, 2023 | mja.com.au | Ian Scott |Jenny Doust |Gerben Keijzers |Katharine A Wallis

Med J Aust || doi: 10.5694/mja2.51925 Published online: 24 April 2023 In the words of renowned American surgeon, writer and public health researcher Dr Atul Gawande, “The core predicament of medicine — the thing that makes being a patient so wrenching, being a doctor so difficult, and being a part of society that pays the bills they run up so vexing — is uncertainty … Medicine's ground state is uncertainty.