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Research shows patients in regional NSW had positive experiences of virtual health care, adding nuanced understanding to help improve telehealth models of care, write Dr Emma Webster, Dr Florian Honeyball, Dr Sidney Pye, and Associate Professor Rob Zielinski. As health care workers, we seem to have either a “good” or “bad” view of virtual health …
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Mashup Score: 1Why we need trauma-informed medical education - InSight+ - 12 month(s) ago
It’s time we started thinking about designing a trauma-informed curriculum for medical trainees, writes Dr Jocelyn Lowinger. At a recent job interview I was asked the question, “can you tell us about a time you made a mistake and what you did about it?” On the face of it, this question seems to be trying …
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Mashup Score: 0Doctors must 'step up' to confront climate crisis - InSight+ - 1 year(s) ago
Doctors must take a leadership role in urging governments to take stronger action on climate change, writes Dr Richard Yin. When the Australian Parliament recently passed the country’s most significant carbon emissions reduction legislation in over a decade, a notable absence in the debate was the health voice. From a health perspective, the Safeguard Mechanism, …
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Mashup Score: 0Bullying and racism in medicine: a plea for change - InSight+ - 1 year(s) ago
The latest Medical Training Survey makes for sobering reading, prompting the need for senior doctors to do more to address bullying and racism in the profession, writes Dr Jillann Farmer. The results of the 2022 Medical Training Survey are in – and the story is not pretty for our early-career colleagues. The survey, organised by …
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Mashup Score: 2Obesity medications are not a magic pill - InSight+ - 1 year(s) ago
Long term medical management is vital for managing obesity, an often-stigmatised condition that is complex and chronic. A Narrative review published online first in The Medical Journal of Australia explores current and emerging medications for the management of obesity in adults. Obesity is the second leading contributor to Australia’s burden of disease due to complications …
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Mashup Score: 3Obesity medications are not a magic pill - InSight+ - 1 year(s) ago
Long term medical management is vital for managing obesity, an often-stigmatised condition that is complex and chronic. A Narrative review published online first in The Medical Journal of Australia explores current and emerging medications for the management of obesity in adults. Obesity is the second leading contributor to Australia’s burden of disease due to complications …
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Mashup Score: 1Read this before coming off antidepressants - InSight+ - 1 year(s) ago
The philosopher Baltasar Gracian observed: “The art of medicine lies in knowing what not to do”. That includes not discontinuing antidepressants when it is in the patient’s best interests to recommend continuing treatment to prevent relapse, write Associate Professors Jeffrey Looi, Stephen Allison and Professor Tarun Bastiampillai … A recent article in The Conversation asked: …
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Mashup Score: 0Health workers and vulnerable patients pay the price for nefarious “COVID normal” narratives - InSight+ - 1 year(s) ago
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the health system stretched and stretched and stretched. So did the people in it. We must resist the inevitable urge of funders and policy makers to assess that this was the true system capacity all along, writes Jillann Farmer … THE first article I wrote for InSight+ came from a space …
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Mashup Score: 1More proof COVID is a multi-system cluster bomb - InSight+ - 1 year(s) ago
This study shows you’re better off not getting COVID and whatever way that you do that is probably a good thing
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Mashup Score: 215Want to prevent long COVID? Prevent COVID-19 - InSight+ - 1 year(s) ago
We should be minimising the number of cases of COVID-19, as opposed to merely aiming to minimise severe acute disease and death, writes Benjamin Veness
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'Best thing since sliced bread': cancer patients back telehealth - InSight+ https://t.co/QE76UFxNtw https://t.co/Isr3fm44ZL