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Monthly Archives: February 2018

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  • Old Doc New Drug: Tapentadol August 9, 2018
    The second instalment of the series of newfangled pharmacological favourites for your edification. This post is all about tapentadol… and its friends.  If you are like me you probably started noticing a trickle, then a flood of patients being discharged from big city hospitals on this new drug.  Now I am a simple rural doctor.  […]
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  • Clinical Case 145: Stump the Chumps Perth August 1, 2018
    I have a special treat for you today!  One of the best things about FOAMed is the collaborations with great clinicians and teachers.  I was lucky enough to be able to get together with a few excellent minds to present this clinical case at the recent Australian Medical Students Society Conference, in Perth. WA. If […]
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    This is a new series of written posts I am doing for the blog.  Basic concept:  I last studied pharmacology 20 years ago. In that time a heap of new drugs have appeared in the pharmacy… and I have been using a lot of them in my practice with little or no understanding of their […]
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