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Gday, I was lucky enough to record a new podcast with Dr Seth Trueger – inspired by the recent online discussions around lactate, or more specifically lactate-clearance as a marker, or a goal of therapy in the treatment of septic patients. This is a topic my team will be covering at the ACEM Winter Symposium [...]
Alrighty then – we are back with another “lessons hard learned” episode. Have been crazy busy this week getting ready for ACEM’s Winter symposium here in Broome. Will be great to have all those folk up here and learning in our backyard. Highlight will be meeting Dr David Newman of SMART EM fame. This episode [...]
This is not just another Clinical Case that I am sharing with you all today. This case is going to form the basis of the Broome Docs team presentation at the ACEM Winter Symposium here in Broome on the 15th June 2013. So this is your chance to get involved – and share your opinions [...]
Welsome back to our Lessons Hard Learned series. This one is about patient relationships in clinical settings. Dr Dave Forster is a fellow Broome Doc – he shares a case from his days as a younger trainee. Not many people know this but Dr Dave is a part-time model. Sure he is a balding, hairy man [...]
Gday I have got a special treat for you today. As a final hurrah in Gynae month I have saved the best for last. Dr Matt Dawson of the UltrasoundPodcast [the slower talkin' one with the carefully-styled hair] has been good enough to share his diagnostic algorithm, US pearls and silky smooth tones. We recorded [...]
Today’s case is a tough one. This is not a happy story, but can you make it end well? So lets lay it out and narrow it down to a few key decision points. The patient is a 35 year old woman with a long history of schizophrenia – she has suffered with persecutory, paranoid [...]
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 [...]
