Take my advice: If you’re a doctor over 40, you need to start living dangerously
Bring adventure, mental and physical challenge, change and calculated risk-taking into your life. I made “someday” happen. You can too. “Someday” it may be too…
Tag: Doctor stories
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.…
Can you still make the financial roulette of universal bulk-billing work? This GP says he has
At a time when universal bulk-billing is financial roulette, one GP says he has found a way to build a thriving practice while providing free medical…
How this doctor quit medicine to make $140,000 a year playing online games
When Dr Michael Pomroy first ventured into the world of an online game called Space Engineers he was attempting to de-stress from his shifts in…
Opening the doors to lost worlds: me and my dementia patients
A familiar lone figure waits directly behind the security doors of the geriatric ward. There in his mint green pyjamas and long plaid overcoat he…
Naked moonlight bathing: Why do intelligent patients choose mumbo-jumbo ‘cures’ over science?
Patients who don’t believe in science puzzle me. I was reminded of one recently, after Dr Pam Rachootin wrote about being tired of patients harbouring…
‘Guess the script I’ve run out of’ — the essential GP skill that’s neglected in CPD
Mind-reading, although never formally taught in medical school, and a completely neglected topic in CPD, is an absolutely essential skill for GPs. My patient sat…
‘A troubled and eccentric GP with a profound vision’: The story that has stayed with me for over 50 years
There are many books that have influenced my life, starting with the Famous Five series and then the New English Bible. But during my time…
Peering at the screen I was sure I could see metastases: When the doctor becomes the patient
Most of us have spent some time on the other side of the doctor’s desk. We have sat anxiously or hopefully or awkwardly with our…
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,…
