Real Case: Why GPs mustn’t let age fool us
You think your parents will be around forever. My dad especially seemed indestructible. As kids he was the one when we went to the beach…
Tag: GP stories
Meet the inspiring doctors honoured by the RACGP
The college's top honour went to the founding chair of its faculty of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health, Associate Professor Brad Murphy…
Vintage cabinets and Italian doors – take a look at the RACGP’s Practice of the Year
Dr Jim Berryman's clinic in Wynyard, Tasmania, is a visual delight where patients can enjoy a hot chocolate by a roaring fire.
‘I thought he was going to kill me’: A GP tells her story
This 35-year-old GP registrar spent eight years feeling unsafe in her own home, having committed her life to a husband who wasn't the man she thoug…
How an IT malfunction helped give the RACGP its GP of the Year
Star GP Dr Duncan MacKinnon from Bega NSW reveals he only got into medicine thanks to a computer quirk.
DIY medical care: I once performed a Pap smear on myself
Recently, while I was performing a breast exam on a patient who is a healthcare professional, she admitted that she had a history of breast…
How I survived childhood diphtheria, but many others didn’t
It was July 1955. I was 10-years old and had just returned from a fantastic beach holiday with my grandparents in the north of Sri…
6 times being a GP made me laugh
In my pre-computer youth, I used to love reading the ‘Laughter is the best medicine’ section in the old Readers’ Digest. As GPs, we often…
It’s been a tumultuous week for an American-Australian like me
This last week has been quite a week for me … a double whammy of anxiety. There were the US elections that seemed to be a…
How Tina Turner saved more lives than me in the town of Tara
It was 3am on a Sunday morning in the operating theatre of Tara District Hospital sometime in the spring of 1978. As I placed a…
