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This is not the usual Broome Docs post. So just a quick foreword to warn you! This is an essay on the way we practice medicine. There are no gory pictures, tricky cases or clinical insights today – just my collected thoughts following recent meditation and discussion around what we do. This is a little [...]
This week I got involved in an online debate that started at LITFL’s Socrates and Sophistry section, then spilled over into the less-civilized Twittersphere. Dr Minh le Cong @rfdsdoc (PHARM podcast) and I got into a bit of a debate about the role of benzodiazepines in acute back pain management. I took the no, not [...]
We have a great job, but sometimes it sucks! Forget the annoyance of shift work, the heirarchy and long hours – for me the worst part of the job is when we find something nasty, or have a poor outcome – giving bad news to nice people is never easy. Why? well it goes back [...]
This is part 2 of Consult Skills. Check out part 1 here if you haven’t yet. Part 1 was all about trying to be better at our day-to-day consults – and it was pretty ‘touchy feely’. This post is not so nice, this is about dealing with the dark side of medicine. Think of the [...]
Sexual Healing. WARNING: there are some seriously tasteless and adult themes in this video. You might even see your new resident if you are in WA.
