Like it or not, social media plays a very large role in modern society. The likes of Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and other social media outlets are enormous. They can be pervasive and intrusive and they seem to have their share of scandals and controversy. Privacy is...
Communication issues represent one of the biggest areas of complaints in medicine and likely other professions as well. It is estimated that well over 80% of complaints are due to failures in communication and so improving this can reduce complaints and improve...
Online consultations can be very attractive. They promise fast, convenient, secure consults and often a prescription at the end. But at what cost? The medical profession is old. Very old. One of the most famous names in medicine, Hippocrates, was alive around 2500...
As doctors what we call ourselves is very important. AHPRA rules are very clear that we cannot misrepresent ourselves to our patients. Why is this so important? And what does this mean in practice? “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose. By any other...
Ever wondered what doctors really think about patients googling their symptoms? Well check out my new video on my YouTube channel. Make sure you hit that like and subscribe button, and of course comment to let me know content you want to hear. In the video I discuss...
Ok. This is a controversial subject. Highly controversial. As I write this there is currently a thread about it raging on one of my doctor-only online forum groups, but we’ll come back to that later. So why am I writing this post? Well recently Australia...
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Brisbane has the highest rates of skin cancer in the world?
Melanoma is the most common cancer in young Australians?
If found early melanoma has an almost 100% treatment success
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