Monthly Archives: March 2013

2010 Clinical Care Guidelines on the management of otitis media in Aboriginal and Torres Straits Islander populations

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First10EM Journal Club: December 2018 December 20, 2018
The year is drawing to a close and we have just one more chance to learn from my very wise, ex-Canadian friend Dr Justin Morgenstern. In this month’s episode, Justin and I discuss a bunch of papers. Topics include: Paediatric plastic poop OOHCA Airway options Weingart’s suction failure Cricoid pressure is not-non-inferior to nothing a […]
Casey Parker
Rural Anaesthesia Journal Club: December 2018 December 16, 2018
Hello, The 3rd instalment of the Rural Anaesthesia Down Under / Broome Docs podcast is now out. I invited a few of my Broome gas colleagues tot he microphone to share their thoughts on a few recent articles relevant to GP anaesthesia. Dr Mel Little returns to the microphone. This time we are joined by […]
Casey Parker
VTE Risk and Prophylaxis: Devil in the Details December 7, 2018
VTE is a problem – there is definitely a risk of hospitalized patients acquiring and either dying or developing complications from VTE. The problem is that “hospitalized patients” includes very heterogeneous groups of patients. We know that the higher risk groups DO benefit from appropriate VTE prophylaxis: Orthopaedic surgical patients General and gynaecol […]
Casey Parker

GP Sceptics podcast 13: Nurses’ conflicts-of-interest
It turns out pharmaceutical and device companies court nurses as well as doctors. Podcast guest Quinn Grundy is on the case. Continue reading →
A textbook case walked into the room
Do salmon cause salmon-pink rashes? Strawberries cause strawberry tongues?Do textbook cases of rashes even exist outside textbooks? Continue reading →
Vitamins: mostly harmless, mostly profitable
I’m beginning to suspect a connection between mostly harmless and mostly useless. Continue reading →
Post-truth therapy: alternative medicine with alternative facts
Last week's Senate bill gives the green light to a thousand unsubstantiated alternative health claims. An advertiser's smorgasbord. Continue reading →
Drug seeker basted me like a turkey
Some people excel at obtaining prescription drugs to sell. Even the crustiest doctors sometimes get done over like a dinner. Here's my turkey story. Continue reading →

Oral cimetidine as the treatment of common warts
Yilmaz et al. J Am Acad Dermatol 1996 Jun;34(6):1005-7 The limited research evidence does not support the use of oral cimetidine as the treatment of common warts
The combination of magnesium, riboflavin, and coenzyme Q10 for migraine prophylaxis
Gaul et al. J Headache Pain 2015;16:516. The evidence for combination magnesium, riboflavin, and CoQ10 is at best equivocal for migraine prophylaxis
Is oral orphenadrine beneficial for acute low back pain?
Friedman et al. Ann Emerg Med 2018 Mar;71(3):348-56 e5 Orphenadrine provides no benefit when used in addition to naproxen for acute low back pain

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