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Recent Posts
- Has lying become okay? (Asking for an American friend)
- Every disease has its queuer
- Australia’s best doctor comes in from the bush
- Tiwi GP – I can run, but can’t hide
- Coleman’s guide to poisoning and the dark arts
- Bad Habits
- Avoiding doctors like the plague
- Podcast 14: Alcohol-related harm in general practice
- Managing diabetes is not all about expensive medication
- My perfect medical statistics day
- GP Sceptics podcast 13: Nurses’ conflicts-of-interest
- A textbook case walked into the room
- Vitamins: mostly harmless, mostly profitable
- Post-truth therapy: alternative medicine with alternative facts
- Drug seeker basted me like a turkey
- 48-second GP consultations
- ‘Junior’ doctors: what’s in a label?
- GP Sceptics podcast 12: Doctors’ resilience
- GP Sceptics podcast 11: Medically Unexplained Symptoms
- How to measure med student empathy
- The Fed endures, and so must we
- Tamiflu: an expensive lesson in panic stockpiling
- GP Sceptics podcast 10: GPs at the Deep End
- Pain clinics: how did such a fresh idea turn sour?
- Not just a GP – I’m your specialist in uncertainty
- GP Sceptics podcast 9: The Environment
- Let’s celebrate the bolt-cutter surgeon
- Greater transparency on specialist fees: a no-brainer
- Four Corners Big Vitamins exposé: cuts both ways
- Five reasons why I’d still encourage my child to do medicine
- GP Sceptics podcast 8: Marketing
- Google Health Cards: the first test drive
- GP sceptics podcast 7: EBM Hijacked!
- Does the weather affect our joints?
- GP Sceptics podcast 6: Obesity – Christmas edition
- Anne Deveson, who destigmatised schizophrenia
- Why ‘medicine for the rich’ is sometimes inevitable
- GP Sceptics podcast 5: Lyme disease…don’t get sold a lemon
- GP Sceptics podcast 4: Addiction
- Homeopathy: US mandates ‘No evidence’ labels
Author Archives: Dr Justin Coleman
Has lying become okay? (Asking for an American friend)
Dr Fauci trying to concentrate on reality Once upon a time, getting caught in a lie, especially a hand-in-the-cookie-jar one, carried consequences. Shame, maybe a grovelling apology. A promise to do better next time. That was so yesterday, you honest … Continue reading
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Tagged Alternative medicine, GP, health, humour, medicine, politics, Trump
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Every disease has its queuer
You thought the queue for the Queen was long. Wait til you see the queue for the doctor! Continue reading
Australia’s best doctor comes in from the bush
If this isn’t Australia’s best doctor, he’s at least a bloke with a rusty stethoscope and vivid imagination. Continue reading
Tiwi GP – I can run, but can’t hide
As a small town doctor, your lifestyle choices are in the public domain. Best to pretend you always make the right ones. Continue reading
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Tagged alcohol, GP, humour, lifestyle, Medical Observer, running
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Coleman’s guide to poisoning and the dark arts
Of all nature’s poisonous creatures, the two-legged doctor is the most dangerous. Continue reading
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Tagged eTG, General practice, humour, Medical Observer, poisons, therapeutic guidelines, toxicology, toxins
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Bad Habits
Good habits sell, but it’s the bad habits that keep us in business. Continue reading
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Avoiding doctors like the plague
Surviving childhood without doctors is not hard…except for the doctors. Continue reading
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Tagged bee sting, bees, General practice, humour, Medical Observer
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Podcast 14: Alcohol-related harm in general practice
GP Sceptics podcast 14 discusses alcohol-related harms and what GPs can do about the problem. Liz and Justin interview guest experts Dr Paul Grinzi and Hester Wilson. Continue reading
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Managing diabetes is not all about expensive medication
Justin Coleman reflects on what matters for diabetes management in his final DMJ editorial. Continue reading
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Tagged diabetes, diabetes management, DMJ, medical journal, T2DM
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My perfect medical statistics day
I dedicated one day in clinic to try to treat every individual as a statistic. My outcomes were brilliant. The individuals weren’t too happy. Continue reading
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Tagged doctor, EBM, evidence, GP, humour, Medical Observer, research, Statistics
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