Hyperkeratosis on the palms of a 44-year-old man, a characteristic of tylosis. Photo: Science Photo Library.The first patient Professor Andrew Miller saw as a radiation…
Dr David Miller used to live on a yacht in the tropics and talk with other fishermen about “things in the sea that sting and…
The field of general practice is wide and varied, and it’s a wise doctor who accepts early that they ‘don’t know what they don’t know’. …
What was initially suspected as run-of-the-mill pneumonia became a world first after Australian doctors removed a live and “wriggling” 8cm-long parasitic worm from a 64-year-old…
Mark, 34, was having a rough trot. Well, 2020 and 2021 was rough for many of us, but Mark was having it tougher than most.…
For nearly 900 years, the sudden death of King Henry I of England has been attributed to accidental poisoning after dining on a large dish…
Medicine. Always challenging, always surprising, but you’d think that 25 years into your career, you might have seen everything. LOL! Of course not! Let’s take…
Today I saw my young adult patient with a distant history of Crohn’s disease and new, chronic abdominal pain. Amitriptyline, 10 mg twice a day,…
History: A fit 80-year-old retired teacher woke up with a painful right wrist that prevented him from writing or holding a cup of coffee. He…
Sir William Osler, the famous Canadian physician, was right when he advised us to listen to our patients, as they would give us the diagnosis —…
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