Matron Iris's monthly posts

• October 2026Seventeen a day. I want you to sit with that number before I give you the rest.
• September 2026Good news for the over-45s, and I'll take it. Sit down, it doesn't happen often.
• August 2026Mustering in January taught me heat doesn't care how tough you think you are. Turns out age makes it worse.
• July 2026Lovely theory. Show me the trial. I've said it for forty years, and this month the gynaecologists said it for me.
• June 2026Most women have never heard of uterine cancer. About nine in ten, by the ABC's count. Forty years on the wards, and that
• May 2026A hundred and two measles cases in Australia by late May. Same time last year, it was 78.
• April 2026Last winter was the worst flu season since flu became nationally notifiable in 2001. That's the records talking, not me