Free educational blog for rural GP and proceduralists
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 [...]
Yes it is time for another Broome Docs podcast! Once again I spoke with Dr Dave Forster about one of his pet topics: earache in kids. This is a super-common presentation and one that can be a bit confusing. In this podcast we talk about the differentiation of otitis externa from media, analgesia strategies and [...]
One of the trends of recent trauma literature has been the use of “minimal volume” or “permissive hypotension” strategies in the face of bleeding. Now there is a new study from the New England Journal that compared 2 transfusion strategies in acute upper GI bleeding. And guess what? It looks like less is more in [...]
I have a confession. For as long as I can remember I have been prescribing a dose of dexamethasone or two for people with acute tonsillo-pharyngitis. Now, I always thought this was a little bit naughty, not really “the done thing” for a doc who tries to be evidence-based. But over the years I have [...]
A new review of the breast cancer screening ( mammography ) literature came out in the Lancet this week. This is essentially an expert panel reviewing old data – nothing new. The UK-based panel looked a the data from a number of long-running screening cohort studies and produced a set of round number estimates for the [...]
