Author name: Tim Leeuwenburg

Big shout outs this month to fellow rural doctors, Casey Parker of Broome Docs and his “lesson’s hard learned” series of podcasts…also to Minh le Cong for discussing various cases from the Coroner. I have just been compiling a list of Coroner’s cases that I think are salutory reading for rural doctors. Delving through Coroner’s cases […]

Sadly we cannot care for everyone in our small rural hospital – oftentimes patients may need an investigation which we cannot offer (eg CT scan, angiogram) or have complex needs requiring tertiary level care. So we often need to talk to our metropolitan colleagues to arrange transfer – whether by commercial carrier, RFDS fixed-wing or

Free Open Access Medical Education (FOAMed) and the tools of Social Media (SoMe) have a lot to offer the isolated rural doctor…but to be honest, once people hear the words ‘blog’, ‘twitter’ or ‘podcast’, many of them are turned off. Reality is that FOAMed and SoMe have a lot to offer – essentially the chance

Interesting and enthusiastic debate on Twitter last night from a variety of sources in response to Minh le Cong’s question “How can we get more rural doctors to SMACC2014?”. The reality is that social media (SoMe) has negative connotations for many doctors…indeed one wit even suggested that whilst doctors are considered conservative, rural doctors are