The GP Show

Dr Jon Jureidini is a child psychiatrist at the Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide where he works with ill and disabled children and their families. He heads the University of Adelaide's: Critical and Ethical Mental Health (CEMH) research group within the Robinson Research Institute, and the Paediatric Mental Health Training Unit.  His latest book "The Illusion of Evidence-Based Medicine" i...

Professor Felice Jacka is Director of the Food & Mood Centre at Deakin University. She is also founder and president of the International Society for Nutritional Psychiatry Research (ISNPR) and immediate past president of the Australian Alliance for the Prevention of Mental Disorders. Professor Jacka's current research focuses closely on the links between diet, gut health, and mental and brain hea...

Dr Kate Gregorevic is a geriatrician and internal medicine physician. She has also completed a PhD looking at the impact of positive psychosocial factors in the development of frailty in older adults.  Lifestyle medicine is a core feature of Kate's clinical practice, and nutrition, exercise and sleep are integral to developing plans to optimise her patients' health. Her approach goes beyond physic...

Dr Ewen Mcphee has been a rural family doctor and GP obstetrician in Emerald, Central Queensland since 1989.  Ewen is President of the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM), past President of the Rural Doctors Association of Australia (RDAA) and a Senior Fellow for JCU GP Training. Today we discuss general practice and rural general practice, the pros, the cons, getting doctors i...

Professor Morgan is a Gumilaroi man from Walgett western NSW. He is a highly respected and acknowledged Aboriginal educator/researcher who has worked extensively throughout Australia and internationally in the field of Aboriginal knowledge and learning for over forty years. Professor Morgan is currently Chair of the Board of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Education and Research (BA...

Professor Lorimer Moseley is a clinical scientist investigating pain in humans. After posts at The University of Oxford, UK, and the University of Sydney, Lorimer was appointed Professor of Clinical Neuroscience and Chair in Physiotherapy at the University of South Australia. He is also Senior Principal Research Fellow at NeuRA and an NHMRC Principal Research Fellow. He leads the Body in Mind Rese...

Dr Anne Swain PhD, APD, AN, is the head dietitian at the Allergy Unit, Department of Immunology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales.  Today we are discussing food intolerances. What are food intolerances? What symptoms do they cause and how?  How are they caused/triggered? Where do they come from? How are they diagnosed?  How are they managed? Can we become "tolerant" again? Res...

Professor David Brieger is an interventional cardiologist and head of the coronary care and coronary interventions at Concord Hospital and Professor of Cardiology, University of Sydney. His particular clinical interests include coronary disease and atrial fibrillation.  He is the lead author of the 2018 National Heart Foundation of Australia and the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand: Au...

Dr Rupy is a medical doctor specialised in General Practice, does a bit of Emergency Medicine and is a firm believer in the power of food and lifestyle change as medicine.  He set up the https://thedoctorskitchen.com/ out of a passion to inspire everybody about the beauty of food and the medicinal effects of eating well. He creates delicious recipes and brings attention to the clinical research be...

Dr Louise Tulloh is a Sports and Exercise Physician and President of the Australasian College of Sports and Exercise Physicians (ACSEP) https://www.acsep.org.au/ . Today we discuss this field of medicine and training, and also some myths and facts around common problems; anterior cruciate ligament knee injuries and lower back pain. If you find these podcasts valuable, rating it 5 stars and leaving...

Dr Alexander Lehn is a neurologist with special interests in functional neurological disorders, movement disorders and cognitive neurology.  He is also a Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland.  Functional Neurological Disorders account for the second most common presentation to neurological clinics.  They also may overlap and integrate with many other common disorders such as chronic pai...

Dr Sandro Demaio is a medical doctor, CEO of VicHealth and globally-renowned public health expert.  He is a Medical Officer for the Department of Nutrition for Health and Development at the World Health Organization. He is also the author of the Doctor's Diet and co-hosts the ABC television show Ask the Doctor.  In his pro bono work, Dr Demaio co-founded NCDFREE, a global social movement against c...

Today I talk about a crucially important topic: taking care of yourselves.  This is perhaps more important now than ever before.  As health professionals we are almost conditioned to put other peoples health before our own, and whilst we must continue to care for others to the best of our abilities, we must also care for ourselves.  For without us in this current scenario, no one will be well. Res...

Today is just me covering an overview of COVID19.  I certainly did not expect episode 100 to be about a new viral pandemic!  But there you have it.  Part 2 will be about self-care in these challenging times. Today I am covering: - COVID19 overview: Case fatality rate, symptoms, risk factors, spread, potential treatments - Public health control: Testing options, Isolation impact - Private Practice...

Dr Eli Dabscheck is a respiratory and sleep physician, Department of Allergy, Immunology and Respiratory Medicine at the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria.  He holds an adjunct position at Monash University and is the Deputy Chair of the current Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Guidelines Committee. Today we are discussing the latest COPD-X guidelines, with a focus on the "COP"; con...

Dr Petra Skeffington is a clinical psychologist at the Cygnet Clinic in Perth.  She has a PhD from Curtin University and a Masters Certificate in Global Mental Health: Trauma and Recovery from Harvard Medical School.  She is the Western Australian State Chair for the Australian Psychological Society (APS) College of Clinical Psychologists, and Head of Psychology, Exercise Science, Chiropractic and...

Joel Salatin has been called "America's best farmer" by Time magazine.  He is a self-described Christian libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic farmer (his words, not mine!).  He runs Polyface Farms and has helped develop the movement of regenerative agriculture, written 12 books, done multiple TED and TEDMED talks, featured in Michael Pollan's bestselling book The Omnivores Dilemma and m...

Dr Frank Meumann is a GP with 40 years' experience and a senior medical educator with General Practice Training Tasmania. He received the 2010 GPET Medical Educator of the Year award for excellence in GP registrar training, and he is the past president of the Balint Society of Australia and New Zealand. Today we cover an important but often overlooked topic - health professionals reconnecting and...

Dr Guy Leschziner is a consultant neurologist at London Bridge Hospital, the Cromwell Hospital and within the Department of Neurology and Sleep Disorders Centre at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals. He is the clinical lead for the Sleep Disorders Centre, Guy's Hospital, one of Europe's largest sleep units. He has presented a three-part series on BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service on the brain and slee...

Professor Amanda Barnard is a GP, member of the National Asthma Council Board and Chair of the Australian Asthma Handbook guideline committee, Australia's national guidelines for asthma management.  She is interim head of the School of Rural Medicine, a Charles Sturt University and Western Sydney University joint program in medicine.  She has written and researched widely and is currently a member...

Dr Greg Rowles is a General Practitioner from Riddells Creek in rural Victoria, and a member of an Expert Group which developed and reviewed Version 16 of the  Antibiotic Guidelines. Today we discuss: Antibiotic stewardship and practical GP considerations in antibiotic prescribing including shared decision making, penicillin hypersensitivity, paediatric recommendations etc Ear nose throat: Acute o...

Professor Sir Michael Marmot is Professor of Epidemiology at University College London, Director of the UCL Institute of Health Equity, and Past President of the World Medical Association. He is the author of  The Health Gap: the challenge of an unequal world (Bloomsbury: 2015)  and  Status Syndrome: how your place on the social gradient directly affects your health (Bloomsbury: 2004) .  Professor...

This episode is to supplement my interview with Dr David Unwin and is just with me reviewing and discussing some areas in more detail that David and I ran out of time to cover, including: Pathophysiology of DMT2 and different dietary considerations Environmental and farming practices Ending the Diet Wars Some further reading for those that want it: Environmental considerations:  https://www.lifest...

Dr David Unwin is a GP based in the UK.  He is a Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) clinical expert in diabetes, RCGP National Champion for Collaborative Care and Support Planning in Obesity & Diabetes, Ambassador for the All Party Parliamentary Group on Diabetes, Founder member of The Public Health Collaboration Senior Collaborator NNEdPro at Cambridge (Need for Nutrition Education / I...

Professor Gregory Phillips is the CEO of Abstarr consulting and Professor of First People's Health in the School of Medicine at Griffith University.  Gregory is from the Waanyi and Jaru Aboriginal Australian peoples and comes from Cloncurry and Mount Isa. He is a leading change maker, thought leader and medical anthropologist.  He developed an accredited Indigenous health curriculum for all medica...