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Recent Posts
- 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
- With Obamacare gone, how will Trumpcare affect US health?
Author Archives: Dr Justin Coleman
A textbook case walked into the room
Do salmon cause salmon-pink rashes? Strawberries cause strawberry tongues?Do textbook cases of rashes even exist outside textbooks? Continue reading
Posted in medical writing
Tagged GP, humour, Medical Observer, pityriasis, rash, textbook
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Vitamins: mostly harmless, mostly profitable
I’m beginning to suspect a connection between mostly harmless and mostly useless. Continue reading
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Tagged complementary medicine, GP, marketing, pharmaceutical, sceptic, vitamins
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Post-truth therapy: alternative medicine with alternative facts
Last week’s Senate bill gives the green light to a thousand unsubstantiated alternative health claims. An advertiser’s smorgasbord. Continue reading
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Tagged Alternative medicine, complementary medicine, Greens, natural therapy, pharmaceuticals, senate, TGA
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Drug seeker basted me like a turkey
Some people excel at obtaining prescription drugs to sell. Even the crustiest doctors sometimes get done over like a dinner. Here’s my turkey story. Continue reading
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Tagged Drug seeking, General practice, humour, opioids, prescribing, Turkey
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48-second GP consultations
GPs in some countries have a fleeting moment to do what takes me 15 minutes. Can less be more? Continue reading
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Tagged BMJ, consultation, GP, healthcare, Kahneman, Medical Observer
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‘Junior’ doctors: what’s in a label?
Is the term ‘junior doctor’ an insult? Maybe not today, but it will be tomorrow. That’s how these labels roll. Continue reading
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Tagged #FOAMed, healthcare, junior, junior doctor, language, medical, registrars
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GP Sceptics podcast 12: Doctors’ resilience
We grill the resilient Dr Genevieve Yates about what it takes for doctors to thrive in a tough environment. Work-life balance, as it turns out, might be a false dichotomy. Continue reading
GP Sceptics podcast 11: Medically Unexplained Symptoms
We interview the Dutch GP who wrote the guide on the difficult art of dealing with patients whose symptoms persist after all reasonable efforts to diagnose them have failed. A fascinating topic because it is both common and perplexing. Continue reading
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Tagged medical, podcast, sceptic, skeptic, uncertainty, Unexplained symptoms
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How to measure med student empathy
Everyone agrees doctors need empathy. But a new study finds medical entrance exams try to measure it, and fail. Continue reading
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Tagged empathy, evidence, Medical Observer, medical student, psychology
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The Fed endures, and so must we
If some old Swiss guy can still win Wimbledon, there’s hope for all us old codgers. Keep moving, or die. Continue reading
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Tagged exercise, Federer, Fitness, health, Medical Observer, running, Sport, Tennis
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