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Tag Archives: RACGP
Today Tonight: product promotion dressed as health news
Last Friday on the Seven Network’s Today Tonight (TT), an episode on arthritis featured respected GP Dr Robert Menz, who gave a very solid interview – warning about the over-use of opioid medications, and promoting exercise and weight loss. Dr … Continue reading
Posted in Naked Doctor
Tagged advertising, evidence, naked doctor, overtreatment, pharmaceutical, RACGP, TGA, Today Tonight, transparency
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Fifteen things good doctors should avoid – Choosing Wisely II
This is important reading if you’re a doctor. And maybe of some interest even if you’re not. Following this year’s successful launch of the Choosing Wisely Australia campaign by NPS Medicinewise, we have produced a second round of recommendations about … Continue reading
Posted in medical education, Naked Doctor
Tagged #ChoosingWisely, #FOAM4GP, #FOAMed, EBM, naked doctor, overdiagnosis, overtreatment, RACGP
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Choosing Wisely – sneak preview of GP shortlist. #FOAM4GP #FOAMed
What interventions do you think GPs should do less of? Do you think we sometimes prescribe inappropriately or order too many tests? I’m not talking about individual anecdotes, but widespread trends accepted as ‘normal’ in some parts of Australian general practice. I am … Continue reading
Posted in medical education
Tagged #ChoosingWisely, #FOAM4GP, #FOAMed, EBM, evidence, overdiagnosis, overtreatment, RACGP
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Health consumers
To consume (v) I have always thought negatively of the word consume. I blame the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), whose first two definitions are; destroy or expend and; spend wastefully. The OED knows both interpretations all too well – no … Continue reading
Posted in medical writing
Tagged consumer, health, humour, Medical Observer, RACGP, transparency
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Tweeting for health professionals
This blog post is a running sheet for a workshop I’m delivering in Inala today, modified from a previous post. Feel free to ignore it if you’re not at the workshop! It aims to encourage health professionals begin using Twitter as an … Continue reading
Blogging for the already-medically-educated
The first part of the RACGP GP13 workshop in Darwin looked at tweeting for doctors and other health professionals. For those with attention spans longer than 140 characters, let’s have a look at blogging. Or, in twitter lingo: #blog4docs The journalistic … Continue reading
Tweet your way to a medical education
This workshop aims to encourage health professionals such as GPs to begin using social media as an educational tool. It was originally run at GP13, the RACGP Annual Scientific Convention in Darwin, Oct 2013. The workshop has been written by: We are happy … Continue reading
Pharma payments to doctors should be transparent
Back in the good old days, your good doctor could pop any commission from anybody into his left pantaloons pocket, and nobody would question it. These days, the public quite reasonably expects higher standards of accountability. Some would argue that doctors should … Continue reading
TGA Advertising Code needs tiger teeth
At the risk of boring readers senseless, occasionally I write submissions aimed at making the world a better place, one regulatory code at a time. All humour self-edited out, although some sarcasm sneaks through: “…it is not entirely clear why those … Continue reading
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