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Gday, This is the second episode of “Lessons Hard Learned”. This one is a little different. When I put out the call for readers to tell how they have learned valuable lessons from their practice the hard way I got a lot of responses. One letter was really powerful – because it was from a [...]
OK, welcome back to the podcast. Apologies but this one is a bit of a disgruntled grumble about a few things that really annoy me in modern medicine. I have just met my new cohort of JMOs, students and trainees and they seem like a really smart bunch. So I thought I would put this [...]
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 [...]
Pretend you are not a doctor for a minute. Imagine this: you wake up tomorrow with some abdo pain. Its not too bad, but gets worse as the day goes on, it is a bit worrying, you can’t eat lunch and you feel a bit sick. You decide to knock off from work and go [...]
