Justin remembers a stormy night in the Emergency Department in his first year as a doctor.
A nurse taught him the first steps towards equanimity.
The Naked Doctor is IN
OVERDOING IT!
Even useful things can be overused. Sometimes in medicine, ’doing nothing’ is the best option.
Justin has had a career-long interest in the pitfalls of over diagnosis and over treatment. He has started a new blog hosted on the Croakey website. Titled the Naked Doctor, it contains no raunchy author photos, largely because that would be an oxymoron. The blog probes those areas of medical practice which would be better stripped bare.
The modern doctor seems to have an intervention for every occasion. He or she wears a magician’s coat of surprises, each more incredible than the last… Read more
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Life in the ordinary lane
Justin featured in the Courier Mail’s Ordinary People column on 28 May 2011 and he’s not quite sure why. There’s an audio and a few pics on their website: story by Amanda Watts.
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Brisbane floods and a wet grand piano
Justin’s damp tale of neighbourly solidarity after the Brisbane floods was published in the Big Issue, the Medical Observer and the international magazine Street News . It became Medical Observer’s most tweeted article ever.
I live half way up a steep street whose end is now dipped in the Brisbane River… Read more
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Why would an ordinary fella like me get a job in a Centre of Excellence?
The RACGP website and magazine Good Practice published an article on why Justin chooses to work in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health.
When Willie Sutton was asked why he kept robbing banks, he replied ‘Because that’s where the money is!’ … Read more
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If medical writers usually forage alone or in pairs, what happens when they leave the safety of their computer?
Justin has just posted an article on Croakey, describing the AMWA annual medical writers’ conference in Sydney.
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