You've probably heard that the word "doctor" comes from the Latin docere - "to teach". The original Hippocratic Oath talked about teaching the art: I will reverence my master who taught me the art. Equally with my parents, will I allow him things necessary for his support, and will consider his
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Me, testing out very fashionable Ebola PPE I reckon every specialty has its unfashionable discipline. I'm not trying to down-play the significance of these conditions to people with them, or to the infrequent specialist who likes these less popular areas. But functional bowel disorders for the gastros, myalgic
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Here's the lecture I gave for Antibiotic Awareness Week in Cairns, November 2014. Thanks to Dr Colin Baskin for recording and editing it.
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It's been a while since I've fired up the blog, and longer since I did a journal club, but this article from BMJ has gotten right up my nose - partially because of the article, and partially because it's been doing the rounds in the news media (and as an
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This Sunday is World AIDS Day. The theme for our local campaign is "Zero". Zero new infections. Zero AIDS-related deaths. Zero discrimination. The Queensland Government HIV strategy aligns nicely with these messages. The four priority areas are: Implement a comprehensive prevention campaign. Promote increased uptake of testing. Ensure 90%
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You've probably all heard of the Law of Unintended Consequences. It even has a page on Wikipedia. In short, it says that things that you do may have results that you did not intend. Of course these can be unexpected windfalls as well as other, more unfortunate side-effects. There is
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I'm a big fan of reason. That's why I don't have a lot of time for the anti-vaxxers and the wind farm opponents etc. It's not always the anti-science crowd who make foolish statements though. See my discussion on the "40% of backpain to be cured with antibiotics" and "don't
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This is a bit of a departure for me, but this article has been getting a lot of attention in the media, so I think it's worthwhile doing. First, a disclaimer. No blog or any other page on the internet is a substitute for proper medical advice you get from
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There's not much that will stop me from banging on about antimicrobial resistance. Preventing it is my job - and my passion - I'm lucky enough to have landed a job doing something that really fits with what I like doing. NPS Medicinewise (formerly the National Prescribing Service) do a
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See my previous posts on this subject here, here and here. First, my standard disclaimer: I am in favour of the NBN and rather despair that Malcolm Turnbull - who really should know better continues to promote what he must know to be an inferior policy for either party-political or purely budgetary
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