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Interview: Computers can't listenGeneral practice is all about listening to our patients as they tell us the story of their health. Dr Chris Pearce discusses the impact that both computers and evidence-based medicine are having on our ability to practise in this patient centred manner. If we lose the patient's narrative, do we lose the plot?Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview: Type 2 diabetesDr Jonathan Cohen presents a timely update on the pharmacotherapy of glycaemic control and other factors that modify cardiovascular risk for people with type 2 diabetes. Metformin is usually the first line, but what comes next?Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview: Evidence based approach to foot assessment in patients with diabetesCareful foot assessment is an important part of GPs' comprehensive care of people with diabetes.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview: Teenagers with diabetesAdolescence is a difficult time for most teenagers, but when you have a chronic illness such as diabetes it can be really tough.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview: Choosing dressings for skin ulcersThe choice of dressings when managing skin ulcers is important, but not more so than making a proper assessment of the patient, their ulcer and the environment in which they exist. Associate Professor Keryln Carville discusses the use of the T.I.M.E. acronym to help choose the right approach.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview: The basic approach to assessment and management of leg ulcersLeg ulcers are a common and time consuming problem in general practice. Poorly managed, they can result in unnecessary amputation or even death. One of Australia's leading wound management consultants discusses the basic approach to assessment and management.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview: Practical approaches to the wounded childChildren can be challenging customers at the best of times and no more so than when you are trying to repair their wounds. Fellow in Paediatric Emergency Medicine, Dr Ronan O'Sullivan, discusses practical approaches to the wounded child.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview: Medical workforce problems confronted by developing countriesWhile we do have medical workforce problems in Australia, they are nothing compared to those confronted by developing countries. Dr Malcolm Moore is a GP in Albury NSW who has worked in Nepal teaching local doctors the art and science of general practice. He talks about what Australian GPs can do to assist countries such as Nepal.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview: Practical wisdomDr Roger Neighbour, visiting President of the RCGP, talks with Steve Trumble about one of the skills that lies at the core of being a general practitioner: "phronesis", or practical wisdom.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview: General practice in the United KingdomDr Roger Neighbour, visiting President of the RCGP, talks with Steve Trumble about general practice in the United Kingdom and how it differs from Australia.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview: Healthy weightRick Kausman talks about successful strategies for helping people be their most healthy weightListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview: The three most challenging areas of palliative careProfessor Patsy Yates discusses three of the most challenging areas of palliative care: when children are dying, when older people need decisions made, and when an Indigenous Australian is in need of palliation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview: Palliating symptoms in people with cancer and other diseasesDr Jane Fischer talks about palliation of symptoms other than pain (including dyspnoea, nausea, constipation, and depression) in people with cancer and other diseases.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview: EndometriosisEndometriosis is a difficult condition to diagnose clinically; it also has major consequences for women in terms of pain, disablement and possible infertility. Dr David O'Callaghan gives Steve Trumble an update.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview: The modern approach to getting back-injured workers back to workThe management of acute low back pain is quite a challenging problem in general practice, especially when it is work-related and there are other issues at play. Dr John Low is an occupational physician from Subiaco, WA. He discusses the modern approach to getting back-injured workers back to work.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview: Morale in the workplaceDr Peter Cotton is an organisational psychologist who believes that the "morale" in a workplace - and in the workers - plays a very significant part in determining health outcomes. In this interview he explains how two workers confronted with the same injury may respond differently depending on their emotional resilience.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview: A S.T.R.A.T.E.G.Y. for getting the at risk patient back to workDr Berny Trifiletti shares her acronym for helping injured workers get back on the job.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview: Effective management approaches to work related upper limb disordersWork related upper limb disorders are common, expensive and difficult to treat. Rheumatologist and occupational physician Dr Michael Shanahan talks to Steve Trumble about effective management approaches, and answers the question: 'where has all the RSI gone?'.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview: Ovarian cancerOvarian cancer is difficult to diagnose and hence it is often not detected before it is well advanced. Associate Professor Margaret Davey talks about some of the patient factors that should raise a GP's index of suspicion.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview: Update on Pap testsThe launch of Australia's new vaccine for preventing certain strains of Human Papilloma Virus holds great promise in reducing the incidence of cervical cancer. But do we run the risk of missing tumors by slackening off on cervical cytology screening? Dr Stella Heley provides an update on Pap tests in this brave new world.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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