A toddler, a red balloon and the art of fighting memory loss
A patient with memory disorder presents following an MRI of her head. It shows small vessel disease. × Welcome to AusDoc. Enabling and empowering the…
Tag: Art of Medicine
A smile for Yes, a middle finger for No — a GP’s experience as a roadside pro-Voice campaigner
I have recently acquired some sympathy for pollsters. And statisticians. As a medical student, I was required to undertake a subject called Medical Statistics and…
Seeing inside my patient’s home during our Zoom consult made me a better doctor
In 2020, I wrote an article titled, ‘Remembering the art of medicine during virtual visits’. In it, I wondered how telemedicine could possibly allow us…
Clinical instinct vs AI: Which is best at keeping patients out of hospital?
How to stop patients ending up in hospital is Australia’s $60 billion question. Politicians, taxpayers, doctors and, of course, patients want to avert hospital admissions…
GPs face ‘weekly’ pressure to approve return to sport for kids with head knocks
Parents of children with head knocks are asking for GP sign-off for their kids to resume contact sports, even after failing medical assessments, a GP…
‘In non-doctor speak, the patient is f***ed’: a GP’s story
GP and writer Dr Sonia Henry put jolts through the medical profession when she published an anonymous opinion piece in 2017 about medicine’s “shameful and…
Cost of living crisis: Patients ‘missing appointments to save on petrol’
New patients are drifting in to see Dr Tim Senior. His practice, an Aboriginal health service, is seeing an increasing number of patients with “a…
‘Doctors like you are using it already’: Is medicine ready for the ChatGPT revolution?
If you weren’t already worried about your future career prospects, a few minutes with the free online software ChatGPT can change that. The artificial intelligence…
‘A two-page letter for talking about mammograms’: Your trivial complaint stories — part two
Australian Doctor has been collecting stories of patients making frivolous complaints about their care. These include complaints sent to Medical Board of Australia or those…
GPs drinking tea, doing ‘experimental’ surgery and refusing a sick note: your stories of trivial complaints
Earlier this year RACGP vice-president Dr Bruce Willett shared his story after being accused of yelling at a patient. A complaint was lodged with AHPRA.…
