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Probing Paediatric Pneumonia with Dr O’Brien and Lissaman March 13, 2019
Drs Adam O’Brien and Claire Lissaman are the authors of a new study looking at the diagnostic characteristics of lung US for Paediatric pneumonia. The study was entitled: Lissaman et al Prospective observational study of point-of-care ultrasound for diagnosing pneumonia in Archives of Diseases in Childhood July 2018 [full text PDF] In this interview we tal […]
Casey Parker
First10EM Journal Club: February 2019 March 7, 2019
Welcome to another edition of the Broomedocs/ First10EM podcast. This month Justin and I serve up a selection of serious and seriously unusual papers. Key learning points: sharks are safe, The NEJM is dangerous and you just may be able to outrun Death. As always – the links to the full text PDFs and into […]
Casey Parker
Rural Anaesthesia PODCAST: February 2019 February 28, 2019
Welcome back to the latest instalment of the RADU podcast. In this episode I was joined on the couch by my Broome GPA colleagues to discuss a few topics. Thanks to Drs Alex Harris, Melanie Little and Sascha Saharov for providing their expertise. The topics we discuss on this podcast include: Elective GA Caesarean sections […]
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 →

EMDR as treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder
Journal reference: Bisson JI, Roberts NP, Andrew M, Cooper R, Lewis C. Psychological therapies for chronic post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in adults. Cochrane database of systematic reviews 2013 Dec 13(12):CD003388 Link: https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD003388.pub4 Published: December 2013 Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) appea […]
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

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