Free educational blog for rural GP and proceduralists
Ok, I need a break from all the Women’s Health. More still to come on Women’s Health this month. But I recently recorded another episode of “Lessons Hard Learned” with my mate Dr Tim Leeuwenburg of KI Docs. This is a discussion mainly about drug errors, systems errors and human factors in the commonest errors [...]
Infertility (or sub fertility – to be PC) is a common problem for which women (and men / couples) presen tto GPs. It can be a really tricky area trying to work out the how, why and what. I think we tend to do a lot of tests where often a careful history and rational [...]
In rural areas there are no dedicated services for the initial management and forensic examination of victims of sexual assault. As such rural GPs and emergency doctors are required to perform this difficult and important task. There are a heap of good training courses and resources out there for clinicians who want to learn how [...]
Dysmenorrhea is a very common problem in primary care, and can even turn up in the ED from time to time. As a bloke GP mainly doing ED stuff, I rarely have to treat it beyond suggesting some OTC NSAIDs and a hot pack. So I have teamed up with Dr Penny Wilson (@nomadicgp) who [...]
Imagine this scenario. You turn up to work your day shift and see you have been assigned to the Obs ward for the morning. It is your task to see the dozen or so patients sleeping off the evils of the night before in the small ward out back of the ED. You know the [...]
The pain felt almost metallic in nature, which didn’t mean anything to me at the time. He had returned from Thailand with a strange rash over his flank that two other experienced GP’s at my practice could not identify when I sought their help. Just then a still small voice flashed into my consciousness about [...]
May is still Women’s health month – so I invited my mate Dr Geordan Shannon back onto the podcast in order to get a refresher on cervical cancer screening – yes, the dreaded Pap smear. Geordan is a passionate advocate and researcher for Women’s health, sexual health and especially Aboriginal health issues related to reproduction [...]
