Clinical Case 085: the trouble with Phineas

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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 [...]

5 Quick Tox Cases

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Well I am just back from Sydney – SMACC2013.  It was heaps of fun, and I got to meet a lot of my FOAMy heroes, long time collaborators and heaps of you folk that read this. SMACC will be slowly trickled out over the ether in the coming months so you can enjoy it all [...]

Broome Docs Podcast: Headaches in primary care with Minh and Gerry

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This podcast is all about the diagnostic approach to headaches, the red-flags, but more about the common primary headaches syndromes that we see in office-based GP. For your reference – go back and check out the PHARM podcast on the severe headache in ED setting – but this one is more about the chronic or [...]

Do TIAs cause syncope? – give your opinion

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HI All A new trick.  I am trying out this online survey feature. Let me know if you have an opinion or experience in TIAs and syncope.

Clinical question: Can a TIA cause syncope?

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Gday readers – today I am crowdsourcing an answer to a clinical conundrum.  Sorry no answers – I want to know what you think. I have been giving a particular tutorial to my trainees for a while now – it is a sort of “choose your own adventure” diagnostic puzzle. I split my class into [...]