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- Podcast 14: Alcohol-related harm in general practice
- Managing diabetes is not all about expensive medication
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- GP Sceptics podcast 13: Nurses’ conflicts-of-interest
- A textbook case walked into the room
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- GP Sceptics podcast 12: Doctors’ resilience
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- 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!
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- 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
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- Homeopathy: US mandates ‘No evidence’ labels
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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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Do you know what you don’t know? Want to find out?
Here’s a fantastic new list of things doctors should consider avoiding. The list is the brainchild of GP Rob Park, who borrowed the brains of hundreds of doctors on the GPs Down Under facebook group. Plenty of food for thought.
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I could have been a logician
With medical jobs so commonplace, I sometimes fantasise about alternative career choices. Three logicians walk into a bar. Says the bartender, “Would all three of you like a cider?” The first logician replies “I don’t know,” the second also says … Continue reading
Don’t just sign on the dotted line: assessing fitness to drive
Originally posted on Dr Genevieve Yates:
The RACGP 15 conference is on in Melbourne next month and as part of the focus on social media, there is a Pecha Kucha competition. Members of the Facebook group, GPs Down Under, are…
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Newsflash: doctor sees patients on time
BRISBANE: At a suburban clinic yesterday, every single patient during the morning session was called into their appointment on time. Dr Justin Coleman, GP at Inala Indigenous Health, described the extraordinary circumstances to reporters camped outside his surgery today. “It … Continue reading
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Tagged Flippant, GP, humour, Medical Observer, on time, waiting room
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Bowel charts – the work of the devil
Bowel charts are a thing of the devil. I hate even mentioning them. In fact, I won’t; let’s talk about blood glucose diaries instead. A bunch of folk just like me, but sweeter, fill in a smattering of glucose … Continue reading
No Advertising Please campaign
Tonight the ABC’s 7.30 report will feature an idea I dreamt up six months ago, called ‘No Advertising Please’. Twenty five enthusiastic doctors and health advocates from around Australia have put together a campaign we are proud of. As readers of … Continue reading
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Tagged advertising, EBM, evidence, General practice, NAP, pharmaceuticals
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Sickies
The delightful Aussie colloquialism ‘sickie’ can describe both the person who is sick, and the time taken off work to allow said sickness to flourish to its full potential. Unfathomably, many employers still require a certificate even for one or … Continue reading
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Tagged humour, medical certificate, Medical Observer, sick note, sickie
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The waiting game
Fifteen years ago I wrote an article about the waiting room at the Geelong Hospital Emergency Department, noting that a higher proportion of Geelong residents visited it than any other small room in that entire city. Back then it was … Continue reading
The secret that doctors hate revealing!!
Warning: Reading this column will change your life. I reveal secrets which other doctors won’t tell you. They will hate me for it, because you need never pay for their services again. I have recently given up doctoring, with … Continue reading
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