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- 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
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- 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
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Tag Archives: GP
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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Bad Habits
Good habits sell, but it’s the bad habits that keep us in business. Continue reading
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Tagged Alternative medicine, GP, health, humour, medical, Medical Observer, wellbeing, wellness
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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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GP Sceptics podcast 13: Nurses’ conflicts-of-interest
It turns out pharmaceutical and device companies court nurses as well as doctors. Podcast guest Quinn Grundy is on the case. Continue reading
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Tagged conflict of interest, GP, nurses, pharmaceutical, podcast, sceptic, skeptic
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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
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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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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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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
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