A GP guide to amyloidosis
Need to know: Amyloidosis describes the group of diseases that result when amyloid fibrils accumulate in organs and result in organ dysfunction. There are about…
Tag: Pathology
Parenthood and the three-gene screen
Reproductive genetic carrier screening (RGCS) aims to identify couples of reproductive age who have a high chance of having children with severe or life-threatening inherited…
Path labs that don’t upload results to My Health Record will lose MBS rebates, Mark Butler warns
Medicare will take back rebates if imaging and pathology companies do not upload results to My Health Record in near real time, the Minister for…
Pathologist avoids conviction for taking 8cm knife onto flight to peel scabs from his arm
A 75-year-old doctor has avoided conviction after boarding an international flight with a knife, which he said he carried as a “habitual scratching implement” because…
A third of GPs ‘rarely or never use’ My Health Record for patient care
Figures showing that almost one in three GPs rarely use the multibillion-dollar My Health Record underline the desperate need for a Federal Government fix, the…
A cosmetic concern that is more than skin deep
Fen, a 61-year-old woman, visits her GP to review the results of recent blood tests. She is concerned about a lump under her right eye,…
Medical Must-See: A gynaecological tumour that’s one in 3300
A 40-year-old’s painless vulval mass was actually a rare benign smooth muscle tumour, a trio of pathologists discovered. The patient had slight discomfort but no…
Oddly puffy shins and frothy urine
Daniel is a 19-year-old university student who presents to his GP with a one-month history of bilateral pitting oedema to his mid-shins and three months…
Persistent headache and fever in a globe-trotting chef
Mai, a 51-year-old Thai chef and restaurant owner, presents with a five-day history of headache associated with fever, lethargy, nausea and vomiting. Two days prior,…
Medical Must-See: Doctors unpeel bowel obstruction case
US surgeons have issued unusual — yet sage — advice to chew one’s unpeeled kumquats carefully before swallowing, after an elderly man who ate the…
