The GP Show

Professor Tony Atwood is considered a world expert on Asperger's Syndrome.  He is a clinical psychologist with honours, masters and a PhD from University College London.  He is also Adjunct Professor at Griffith University and author of many excellent books on this topic.  We discuss: - Features of Asperger's Syndrome - How to work with carers, friends and family members - Management principles  -...

Associate Professor Peta-Ann Teague is a GP, A/Prof at the School of Medicine and Dentistry at James Cook University and Director of Generalist Medical Training. We discuss cognitive bias, the importance in being aware of these so we can develop our professional selves, their role in clinical practice, the differing categories and how we can manage them. Further reading: https://lifeinthefastlane....

This episode is only relevant really to RACGP registrars and their respective supervisors who are teaching them so sorry to everyone else!  But it is a source of significant anxiety (and requests to me to do an episode on) so I have covered it. I shall cover the RACGP criteria of an excellent candidate (public info), the common mistakes I see registrars make and break down each area in more detail...

Finally I am doing a specific child health topic after multiple attempts! Today I am joined by Dr Anthony Morosini Paediatrician in both the public and private sector.  He has an interest in evaluating growth so we had a nice discussion about some of the general principles, history, examination, investigations, management and variants of pathological and non-pathological growth patterns. As always...

Today I am joined for an online chat by GP and medicolegal advisor for MDO Avant Dr Peter Walker.   Areas we discuss include:   What are the most common reasons for doctors seeking medicolegal advice?  What are the common reasons patients and colleagues complain? What is the "complaint" process and possible outcomes?  How can you reduce your medicolegal risk?  

Just me today.  Ironically I have to postpone an interview with a paediatrician due to my son being sick.   So instead I am covering some of the topics people have asked me about including acne management and because I love a bit of medical history, I am talking about the interesting history of anaesthesia. Finally I was stimulated by a recent RACGP AFP article to talk about the importance of asse...

Surrounded by the familiar beeps and glow of the hospital surgical theatres I had a thoroughly enjoyable chat with scrubs-donned Dr Johan Van Den Bogaerde Gastroenterologist and researcher.  We discuss probiotics and the various relevant themes around them.     Topics we discuss include: - What are probiotics and some important principles - How do they work? - Evidence for different conditions - I...

Dr Genevieve Yates is a medical educator, a GP and a writer. Currently she is the RACGP Queensland Censor, RACGP Expert Committee member (Pre-Fellowship Education) and senior examiner, a performance assessor for AHPRA and a member of MDA National's Education Services Advisory Group (ESAG). She also works as an educator/ facilitator for MDA National and the Black Dog Institute. She is passionate ab...

In this episode we discuss non-alcoholic fatty liver disease or NAFLD with Dr Jon Mitchell, Hepatologist and Head of Gastroenterology at the Sunshine Coast University Hospital. We discuss: - What is NAFLD? - What is the prevalence? - How is it caused? - What is the spectrum and complications of NAFLD? - What investigations are useful? - What is the management? - Is coffee good for the liver?  - Wh...

It was a pleasure to have on the show Dr Paul Grinzi who is a GP in Victoria.  He juggles a few roles, balancing his clinical work in both rural and urban GP clinics with part-time medical education work. He's recent past chair of the RACGP Vic Drug & Alcohol committee and the key educator for the Victorian Government's 'Medication Assisted Treatment of Opioid Dependence' training program. Today P...

Today we review considerations in acute vision loss with our friendly ophthalmologist Dr Russell Phillips.  He was the previous Head of retinal surgery at Flinders Hospital and frequent lecturer at Flinders Medical School. I feel I must apologise for my ignorance in some areas in this episode and make it clear that it does not reflect the high level of knowledge of some of my fellow GPs. This was...

Associate Professor Craig Hassed is a GP, a Senior Lecturer at the Monash University Department of General Practice, and Co-ordinator of the mindfulness program at Monash University.  He is also the writer of 12 books, researcher and international speaker in this field.   There are many pearls of wisdom in this episode that are extremely useful to learn and apply.  We discuss the principles of min...

A/Professor Megan Munsie PhD is the Deputy Director for the Centre for Stem Cell Systems at The University of Melbourne and the Head of the Education, Ethics, Law & Community Awareness Unit at Stem Cells Australia  www.stemcellsaustralia.edu.au Stem cell therapy is something I am being asked more and more about so I did some research and came across A/Prof Munsie.  Are they just another snake oil...

Today I am joined by Dr Johanna Lynch, GP, completing a PhD in primary care mental health assessment, post graduate training in grief and loss and a special interest in trauma and attachment. At least 1 in 8 consults in GP is related to mental health and this is increasing. According to the World Health Organization, unipolar  depressive disorders  alone were ranked as the third  leading cause  of...

Today I am joined by A/Professor David Colquhoun, Cardiologist, Lipidologist, President of the QLD Heart Foundation, Co-President of the Clinical and Preventative Council of the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand, and Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland School of Medicine.  He has dedicated his life to reducing cardiovascular disease, and pleasingly with a strong focus on imp...

Today I am joined by A/Professor David Colquhoun, Cardiologist, Lipidologist, President of the QLD Heart Foundation, Co-President of the Clinical and Preventative Council of the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand, and Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland School of Medicine.  He has dedicated his life to reducing cardiovascular disease, and pleasingly with a strong focus on imp...

Today I am joined by exercise physiologist Tim Douge to discuss what role EPs play in disease management and prevention and how GPs and allied health can work more closely to benefit patients.  

Had some good laughs with GP, former Headspace worker and all round top bloke Dr Chris Ganora.  I was way too ambitious with the list of areas I wanted to cover as youth mental health is wide ranging and deep in content.  So this is really more a "concept" overview and we shall have to revisit this area - many many times!   We cover building trust and getting a good history as that forms the cruci...

Non-invasive prenatal testing is becoming more common and cost effective.  It detects more than 99% of fetuses with Trisomy 21, and more than 95% of fetuses with Trisomy 18, Trisomy 13 or abnormalities of sex chromosomes. These are much better detection rates than we observe with conventional first trimester screening for these trisomies (85% for trisomy 21, 50% for trisomy 18, and 50% for trisomy...

Welcome to the first of a new segment I am trying out every now and then.  I review the theory and science behind controversial topics and rate it - confirmed, busted or plausible. I have had a lot of requests to cover medicinal cannabis, so here it is.  There is some really interesting science here, but it is still early days.  In this episode we cover: What is medicinal cannabis? How does it wor...

I really enjoyed this online conversation with Professor Felice Jacka from the Deakin University School of Medicine and Food and Mood Centre about how food effects our mental health and what clinicians and patients can do about it.  We reviewed the SMILES trial, a randomised control trial showing healthy food choices like the Mediterranean diet can produce remission in people with major depression...

After making a fool of myself in the first 30 seconds, Dr Tony and I have a good yarn about prostate cancer history, examination, investigations and treatments with the last 10 minutes covering the evidence for PSA testing for screening.  For more on PSA screening guidelines and types of PSA testing, DRE in screening and lifestyle medicine interventions in early prostate cancer - check out my earl...

I caught up with my old friend and GP registrar Dr Nadim Cody in Central QLD and we talked about his experiences with Medicins San Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) in PNG and various regions of Sudan.  Informative, touching, hopefully helpful are three ways to describe the talk.  Humble, wise and an inspiration are three words I would use to describe Nadim.   I apologise for some mic bumping n...

On December 1 2017 the cervical screening program changes from the current pap smears to HPV testing with a change in frequency and follow up.  Join gynaecologist Dr Kelvin Larwood and I having a casual yarn over the new guidelines.  

A/Prof Bittoun gave one of the most useful workshops I have ever done at the recent Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine conference on smoking cessation. I had to interview her to share some of the principles with you.  With 15% of Australians still smoking and 21% in disadvantaged areas - this is still a major disease determinant - but were the people who have already quit the low hanging f...