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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
With Obamacare gone, how will Trumpcare affect US health?
The richest health industry in the world woke this morning with a feeling of ‘what just happened?’ Continue reading
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Tagged health, healthcare, Medical Observer, pharmaceutical, President, Trump, USA
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Mothers, don’t plan on early delivery unless it’s medically necessary.
Mothers beware! New study suggests planning births before 39 weeks is linked to child learning difficulties. Continue reading
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Tagged C-section, child development, evidence, health, mothers, pregnancy
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GP Sceptics pod3: Pain
Sceptical medicos Justin and Liz take on the analgesics industry. And give various cognitive biases a run for their money. Continue reading
GP Sceptics podcast 2: Diabetes
Justin and Liz ask the hard questions and give the easy answers about diagnosis of diabetes. Continue reading
Starts at 60 interview
Video interview on the website ‘Starts at 60’. Justin explains what patients can expect of their GP, or ask for if they’re not getting it! Features Choosing Wisely. Continue reading
GP Sceptics podcast 1: Big Soda
First of the GP Sceptics podcast series. We tackle Big Soda’s influence on health research. Continue reading
Coffee – safe even if your heart is a bit dicky
Even if you have a pacemaker, get your hipster self down to the local café. Continue reading
Do GPs ever regret referrals?
An Australian study (featured today in Medical Observer) has found prostate cancer patients are more likely to regret surgery than radiotherapy. This had me wondering; if my patient regrets surgery, should I then regret having referred them to a surgeon? We would … Continue reading
Pharma targeting nurses for ‘education’
Big Pharma shifts focus onto nurses. It’s marketing money well spent. Continue reading
Posted in medical writing, Naked Doctor
Tagged Medical Observer, nurses, pharmaceutical, transparency
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Deprescribing: a fancy word for ceasing?
What’s old is new again. Hipster beards are so in, they’re out, and where we used to simply cease medications—we now deprescribe them. Continue reading
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Tagged #FOAM4GP, deprescribing, Medical Observer, overtreatment, pharmaceutical
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