Emily Dunn

Emily Dunn

Emily Dunn is a Clinical Features Writer for Australian Doctor Group.

Ms Dunn has worked as a journalist for 15 years including seven as a news reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald. She has a Master of Public Health and is currently studying medicine

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WorkWise Practice

Are we unnecessarily tying ourselves up in knots over CAM?

18th February 2019
There’s no doubt it’s divisive: at one end of the spectrum are GPs who label it all ‘bunk’; at the other are the GPs trying…
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Yoga
Medical Observer Views

3 doctors reveal why their patients bring the greatest rewards

15th January 2019
The young woman was living on the street, dependent on opioids and methamphetamine, and struggling with mental health issues…
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Homeless
Medical Observer Views

GPs' important role in tackling a diabetes disaster

6th December 2018
It has been labelled Australia’s least-known major health problem. Diabetic foot disease afflicts 50,000 Australians with…
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Toe_amputations_in_diabetes_X-ray
Medical Observer Views

Doctors need better guidance in treating endometriosis, says pain specialist

24th September 2018
It is a disease as old as womankind and, some would say, as misunderstood. The first recorded symptoms of a gynaecological…
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Female reproductive organs
Medical Observer Views

Master of disguise: The hunt for an HIV vaccine

27th August 2018
HIV is a master of disguise and continually evolving. Emily Dunn looks at how this is impeding the search for a vaccine. …
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HIV structure
Australian Doctor News

Neglected issue of heart failure needs a restart – and GPs are the solution

27th July 2018
  Welcome to the new Medical Observer website! Here's Editor-in-Chief Jo Hartley to tell you more about it. …
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Heart
Australian Doctor News

Pain care is a mess – what needs to happen?

3rd July 2018
Pain medicine specialists are working to find better ways to help those with chronic pain, writes Emily DunnThe patient…
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