Spot Dx — What’s the cause of this blackout?
A bystander races into the practice, asking for help for a man who has blacked out up the road. Test your clinical know-how by taking…
Tag: Diagnostics
Functional disorders: top-down or bottom-up?
Need to know: Patients with functional conditions are frequently over-investigated and yet still misdiagnosed. But even with the correct diagnosis, a systematic approach to management…
Infectious disease professor vs AI chatbot in grand rounds showdown — who wins?
Find out what finally brought machine learning unstuck, when an infectious diseases professor entered a “diagnostic showdown” against ChatGPT. Professor Martin Rodriguez, head of the…
An erythematous flag on the fingers
Viola is a 71-year-old Caucasian woman who presents to her GP for a routine iron infusion for recurrent iron deficiency. At review prior to the…
‘You’re expected to manage anything’: Life as a doctor on a tiny island
Dr Jodie McCoy was already working at Norfolk Island’s only hospital when she was a teenager, as a lifestyle officer at its aged care component.…
Facial palsy and neuropathy point to a serious syndrome
Jack is a 23-year-old retail worker who presents to his GP with five days of left facial palsy, with a working diagnosis of Bell’s palsy.…
Genomic testing in primary care
Genomic testing describes the assessment of genetic information across multiple genes, all of which, together or separately, can provide information about an individual’s health. Genomic…
Cardiac crisis avoided courtesy of a clued-in GP
Xie is a 41-year-old regular practice patient who attends for results of recent routine blood tests. She has a history of diet-controlled gestational diabetes mellitus…
An approach to functional disorders
Need to know: Everyone experiences functional symptoms — be it a twinge, tic, twitch or tickle. These occur frequently and are largely ignored. Occasionally, however,…
The incidentaloma menace: Why GPs and radiologists need to talk
“You have got a community that thinks modern medicine is amazing and can tell them everything with certainty — and the reality is it cannot.”…
