Saturday, 02/05/20; An Australian Chest Physician’s Reflections on the Covid-19 Pandemic. “1177 BC. When Civilisation Collapsed”. A Comparison with the Current Situation. Letters from Australia. No.8 by Prof. Roger KA ALLEN (www.sarcoidosis.com.au) At present I am reading a book by the American classics scholar, Eric H. Cline called “1177 BC: When Civilisation Collapsed” and led […]

Sunday, 19/04/20; An Australian Chest Physician’s Reflections on the Covid-19 Pandemic. “Conversations with Gaia. An Epilogue Letters from Australia. No.7 Part IV by Prof. Roger KA ALLEN (www.sarcoidosis.com.au) Introduction Since my interview with Lady Gaia, I have just received a letter from her wishing to address a few issues she left unsaid last time. She […]

Thursday, 16/04/20; An Australian Chest Physician’s Reflections on the Covid-19 Pandemic. “Conversations with Gaia. An Interview by Radio 2BNOT2B.” Letters from Australia. No.7 Part III by Prof. Roger KA ALLEN (www.sarcoidosis.com.au) Interviewer And why don’t you think we are that sensible, O Augusta? Gaia I do concede that there have been some enlightened hominids who […]

Thursday, 16/04/20; An Australian Chest Physician’s Reflections on the Covid-19 Pandemic. “Conversations with Gaia. An Interview by Radio 2BNOT2B.” Letters from Australia. No.7 Part II  by Prof. Roger KA ALLEN (www.sarcoidosis.com.au) Interviewer Well, Your Ladyship, what is our other mistake? Gaia It also said in the Hebrew laws (Leviticus 11) that there were certain foods […]

Thursday, 16/04/20; An Australian Chest Physician’s Reflections on the Covid-19 Pandemic. “Conversations with Gaia. An Interview by Radio 2BNOT2B.” Letters from Australia. No.7, Part I by Prof. Roger KA ALLEN (www.sarcoidosis.com.au) Introduction Gaia was the Greek name for the goddess of the Earth, the Greek name being “Ge” as in geology, Pangaea (“pan” meaning “all”, […]

Easter Monday, 13/04/20; An Australian Chest Physician’s Reflections on the Covid-19 Pandemic. “Misery acquaints a man with strange bed-fellows”. ACE2, Covid-19 and sarcoidosis. Letters from Australia. No.6 by Prof. Roger KA ALLEN (www.sarcoidosis.com.au) The strange nature of Covid-19 lung involvement I have observed over the past weeks that the medical profession has been on a […]

Easter Sunday, 12/04/20; An Australian Chest Physician’s Reflections on the Covid-19 Pandemic. “The sedge has wither’d from the lake, and no birds sing.” Letters from Australia. No.5 by Prof. Roger KA ALLEN (www.sarcoidosis.com.au) As I revel in the sunshine and cloudless blue sky of a Brisbane Easter Sunday morning, I am reminded of the saying […]

Good Friday, 10/04/20; An Australian Chest Physician’s Reflections on the Covid-19 Pandemic. “Diseases desperate grown, by desperate appliance are relieved, or not at all.” Letters from Australia. No.4 by Dr Roger KA ALLEN (www.sarcoidosis.com.au) Good Friday has always been a sombre day for me ever since my childhood, not necessarily because of its spiritual significance, […]

Dimanche 22/03/20; Réflexions d’un pneumologue australien sur la pandémie de Covid-19. “C’est maintenant l’hiver de notre mécontentement.” Lettre d’Australie, n ° 1 de Dr Roger KA ALLEN (www.sarcoidosis.com.au) Chers Terriens, nous sommes frappés par un tsunami dont la vague monte en hauteur de minute en minute. Le nombre de personnes frappées double tous les trois […]

Monday, 6/04/20; An Australian Chest Physician’s Reflections on the Covid-19 Pandemic. “To be or not to be” or “Much ado about nothing?” Letters from Australia. No.3 by Dr Roger KA ALLEN (www.sarcoidosis.com.au) As I write my third article, I feel that the rate of change of the pandemic is difficult to keep up with as […]