She returned home to sleep a few floors above her abuser — I hoped she wouldn’t become a dreaded statistic
Thinking back to my time as a final-year medical student in the emergency department, there was always a nagging sense of being in the way…
Tag: Art of Medicine
When patients stroke our ego, do we end up treating them or serving ourselves?
We all have rusted-on patients, and our interactions with them differ depending on that complex flux between what they think they want and what we…
Dr Marian Dover: A rural generalist’s 4000km journey to escape the ‘path to nowhere’
When GP Dr Marian Dover saw the job of her dreams, with the thrill, she also experienced a little trepidation at what would come with…
Why doctors are from Mars and patients are from Venus
Doctors are from Mars, patients are from Venus. It sounds like a play on Dr John Gray’s brilliant book from 1992, but from our medical…
ADHD has become ‘it girl’ of mental health, the cool kid of diagnoses, the disorder everyone seems to want
“Everyone’s got ADHD these days.” ADHD is a diagnosis that is indisputably on the rise. It’s the ‘It Girl’ of the mental health world right…
My most memorable day as a doctor? ‘I couldn’t quite picture Dr Mark Killingback as a fallible human being’
As part of AusDoc’s 40th anniversary, this week we are publishing stories by readers about their most memorable day as a doctor. We have had…
Why do we struggle to listen to patients properly?
In medical school, we are taught the 90-second rule: avoid talking during the initial stages of a consult to elicit the patient’s concerns and agenda.…
I’m a doctor with hearing loss: Here’s my story…
How do I begin to explain how it feels to grieve the loss of something intangible? I remember that first moment in the waiting room,…
Can an older GP be taught new tricks? What Dr Vivienne Tedeschi learnt going ‘back to school’ in her 60s
After dreaming of practising obstetrics since medical school, GP Dr Vivienne Tedeschi finally took the plunge while aged in her 60s to train as a…
What’s happening to our acute care skills? The broken heart of general practice
Dr Ashraf Saleh is a Queensland GP — for now. He is leaving the specialty due to what he sees as its diminished scope, the…
