No heartsink: Why GPs should encourage patients to draw up The List
Dr Marguerite Tracy wants to convince GPs that patients turning up at the consult with the dreaded list can be a positive, not heartsink, moment.…
Tag: Art of Medicine
‘Simple things are difficult to sell’: Leading UK GP on primary care’s PR failure
Professor Trish Greenhalgh’s general practice parable goes like this. The scene is Britain in the late 1990s. The patient is a first-time mother. ׅ
‘General practice is an opportunity to serve’: Wisdom from an award-winning GP
Dr Christopher Hughes’ first exposure to general practice came in 1977, a placement at Greenpoint Medical Centre as part of his degree at the University…
What if Humphrey Bogart played it again as an Aussie GP?
It was a WONCA presentation unlike any other, punctuated by laughs, applause, and even a call for an encore, with not a PowerPoint slide in…
A toddler, a red balloon and the art of fighting memory loss
A patient with memory disorder presents following an MRI of her head. It shows small vessel disease. × Welcome to AusDoc. Enabling and empowering the…
A smile for Yes, a middle finger for No — a GP’s experience as a roadside pro-Voice campaigner
I have recently acquired some sympathy for pollsters. And statisticians. As a medical student, I was required to undertake a subject called Medical Statistics and…
Seeing inside my patient’s home during our Zoom consult made me a better doctor
In 2020, I wrote an article titled, ‘Remembering the art of medicine during virtual visits’. In it, I wondered how telemedicine could possibly allow us…
Clinical instinct vs AI: Which is best at keeping patients out of hospital?
How to stop patients ending up in hospital is Australia’s $60 billion question. Politicians, taxpayers, doctors and, of course, patients want to avert hospital admissions…
GPs face ‘weekly’ pressure to approve return to sport for kids with head knocks
Parents of children with head knocks are asking for GP sign-off for their kids to resume contact sports, even after failing medical assessments, a GP…
‘In non-doctor speak, the patient is f***ed’: a GP’s story
GP and writer Dr Sonia Henry put jolts through the medical profession when she published an anonymous opinion piece in 2017 about medicine’s “shameful and…
