The Medical Journal of Australia

Today we are discussing organ donation after voluntary assisted dying.    My special guests are Associate Professor Neera Bhatia in the faculty of business and law at Deakin University and Associate Professor James Tibballs, a retired intensive care physician.    Read their research: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.5694/mja2.52016   With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 15 mins.

Today we are discussing hospital utilisation in Australia, with a focus on use by people over 75 years of age.    My special guests are Dr Natasha Reid, a research fellow, and Professor Len Gray, a Professor of Geriatric medicine, both at the centre for health services research at the University of Queensland.    Read their research: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.5694/mja2.52026   With MJ...

Today we are discussing the supplement in the Medical Journal of Australia from the Office of the Rural Health Commissioner on the theme: building a rural and remote workforce with place-based education.    My guests are the National Rural Health Commissioner, Adjunct Professor Ruth Stewart and Professor Richard Murray, who is the Dean of Medicine and Dentistry at James Cook University and the imm...

Today we are discussing clinical practice guidelines for deprescribing opioids. My specialist guests are Aili Langford, a research fellow and pharmacist, and Associate Professor Carl Schneider, a pharmacist and registered nurse. Read more in the MJA: https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2023/219/2/clinical-practice-guideline-deprescribing-opioid-analgesics-summary   With MJA news and online editor, Sam...

Today we are discussing artificial intelligence and the potential consequences for medicine and health care in Australia. My special guest is Professor Enrico Coiera, the Director of the Centre for Health Informatics at Macquarie University. Professor Coiera trained as a medical doctor and leads the Australian Alliance for AI in Healthcare.   Professor Coiera and his colleagues wrote on this topic...

Today we are discussing the issues doctors face when running their own practice, whether they are starting out or are running a large practice. We will also look at what doctors can do in their own practice to save time and money. My special guest is Associate Professor David Williams, a neurologist and the general manager of Avant practice solutions, which sponsored this podcast.  With MJA news a...

Today we are discussing the future of food and nutrition, in the context of a rising global population and the need for nutrition from sustainable sources. My specialist guest is Professor Johannes le Coutre, a professor of food and health at the UNSW Sydney’s School of Chemical Engineering.   With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 14 mins.

Today we are discussing new research into the barriers and facilitators to voluntary assisted dying in the state of Victoria.   My special guests are Professor Ben White, Professor of End-of-Life Law and Regulation, and Ruthie Jeanneret, a PhD Student, both in the Australian Centre for Health Law Research, at the Queensland University of Technology.    Read their research in the MJA: https://onlin...

Today we are discussing how to handle challenging patient interactions with some tried and tested methods. My special guest is Dr Owen Bradfield, Chief Medical Officer for the Medical Indemnity Protection Society, which sponsored this podcast. Dr Bradfield is a general practitioner and a lawyer.    With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 17 mins. Photo supplied by the Medical Indemnity Protecti...

Today we are discussing 3D printing and its uses in limb reconstruction, deformity correction and complex arthroplasty. My special guest is Dr Mustafa Alttahir, an orthopaedic surgeon at Macquarie University Hospital which sponsored this podcast.    With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 14 mins.   Photo supplied by Macquarie University Hospital.

Today we are discussing how to improve health outcomes in regional Australia.    My guests are A/Prof. Bernadette Ward and Dr Pam Harvey, both at the School of Rural Health, at Monash University in Bendigo. You can read more about this topic at: https://insightplus.mja.com.au/2023/8/doctors-not-used-efficiently-in-the-bush/   With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 17 mins. Photo by Shutterstoc...

Today we are discussing advances in breast cancer treatment and how innovation can lead to earlier detection, more effective treatments and better quality of life. My guests are Dr Negin Sedaghat, a specialist breast surgeon and surgical oncologist, and A/Prof. Jeremy Hsu, a specialist breast cancer surgeon. Both my guests practice at Macquarie University Hospital in Sydney, which sponsored this p...

Today we are discussing innovations in hand and wrist surgery. My guest is Dr Matt White, an orthopaedic surgeon specialising in hand and wrist surgery from Macquarie University Hospital (MUH), which sponsored this podcast   With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 13 mins. Photo by Jennifer Taylor, vividity.com.au

Today we are discussing innovations in robotic-assisted surgery. My guests are Prof. David Gillatt, a specialist urological surgeon and the director of medical services at Macquarie University Hospital (MUH), and Professor Michael Wilson who is a specialist cardiothoracic surgeon at MUH, which sponsored this podcast.     With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 19 mins.

Today we are discussing the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) with Prof. Jennifer Smith-Merry, who is the Professor of Health and Social Policy and the Director of the Centre for Disability Research and Policy at the University of Sydney. She has written about the need for better equity in the NDIS in the Medical Journal of Australia: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.5694/mja2.5189...

Today we are discussing how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted medical staff on the frontline. Dr Marion Mateos was juggling being a new mother and her first consultant role, as the pandemic began. Marion is a paediatric oncologist based at the Kids Cancer Centre in Sydney, a clinical academic at the University of New South Wales and a clinic research fellow at the Childrens Cancer Institute.  You can...

Today we are discussing doctors at war, as part of ANZAC Day commemorations, with Colonel Robert Likeman (Retd). Colonel Likeman served in the Australian Army for 24 years as a medical doctor. You can read more at: https://insightplus.mja.com.au/2023/14/doctors-at-war-stories-from-the-frontline/ With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 19 mins.

Today we are discussing Long COVID with Dr Danielle Hitch, an occupational therapist and a Senior Research Fellow at the School of Health and Social Development at Deakin University in Geelong and Western Health in Melbourne.    Dr Hitch and her team have published the first Australian study into lived experience of Long COVID and COVID recovery. You can read more at https://insightplus.mja.com.au...

Today we are discussing the importance of investing in mental health care to help improve economic and social participation with Associate Professor Jeffrey Looi, a clinical academic psychiatrist and Head of the Academic Unit of Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine at the Australian National University School of Medicine and Psychology.    With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 19mins.

The Australian Child Maltreatment Study is published as a supplement in the 3 April 2023 edition of The Medical Journal of Australia .   We are joined by researchers David Lawrence, who is Professor of Mental Health in the School of Population Health at Curtin University, and Associate Professor Holly Erskine, who leads the Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Epidemiology and Services research stream...

Vol 217, Issue 11: 12 December 2022. Associate Professor Andrew Morokoff is a neurosurgeon with The Royal Melbourne Hospital and the University of Melbourne. He talks about the role of spinal surgery, particularly spine fusion, in the treatment of low back pain, to accompany his coauthored narrative review published by the MJA . With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 217, Issue 11: 5 December 2022. Professor Anne Kelso AO will be stepping down as CEO of the National Health and Medical Research Council in 5 months' time after 8 years in the role. She talks about gender equity in medical research funding and a new program introduced by the NHMRC, to accompany her MJA  article on the subject . With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 217, Issue 11: 5 December 2022. Dr Sandro Demaio is Chief Executive Officer of VicHealth . He wrote recently for InSight+ about five design principles which should be the foundation of any national centre for disease control, and in this podcast he expands on those ideas. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 217, Issue 11: 30 November 2022. Dr Violet Kieu, Dr Antoinette Anazodo and Professor Kate Stern are coauthors of new COSA guidelines for fertility preservation for people with cancer , and of a guideline summary published in the MJA . They talk about options for preservation, recent advances, and the importance of early referral to fertility specialists after cancer diagnosis. With MJA news an...

Vol 217, Issue 11: 28 November 2022. Professor Markus Schlaich is Director of the Dobney Hypertension Centre in Perth, and Dobney Chair of Clinical Research at the University of Western Australia. His recently published research on dual endothelin antagonist aprocitentin for resistant hypertension can be found at The Lancet . His op-ed for InSight+ is free to access and can be found here . With MJ...