New Zealand is as vulnerable to “outbreaks of viral misinformation” as anywhere else due to its spread and amplification on social media. Two recent cases highlight the need for a sound strategy of communication
Contributor Gayle Robins rounds up the clinical education content in the latest issue of New Zealand Doctor. Use the embedded links to go through to the relevant ELearning page
Toe pain is quite common in active people, but it rarely kills anyone. Therefore, undergraduate training in this area is virtually non-existent. However, patients expect us to be competent in sorting out pain affecting all areas of the body
In an effort to show someone else is an unfit parent, to try to gain custody, to make an adjustment to visitation rights or simply to hurt the other partner, people will bring children into your surgery and ask you really difficult questions
Older people do not want to be portrayed as disabled, weak and needy, so messages need to be about strength, endurance, independence and maintaining the indispensable contributions older people make.
The diagnosis of both asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is not always straightforward, and there are a number of potentially confounding factors
Galileo Galilei is credited with writing “In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.”
Specialist GP Nikki Vadgama provides some tips to make your next paediatric eczema consult easier. She includes a review of new guidelines, resources, websites and medications for paediatric eczema management