It’s been an interesting week. Finally managed to pin down former KI Doc, Dr Jamie Doube for a quick podcast before he disappears on another round of adventures. You can listen to the podcast over at ruraldoctors.net.Sadly our discussion on haemostatic dressings got a little sidetracked by beer and other interesting things, so we’ll re-record […]
Well we’re gearing up for SMACC GOLD – the seminal critical care conference to be held on the Gold Coast Mar 19-21 2014. Rumour has it that I will be engaging in a debate with the esteemed Dr Minh le Cong of RFDS QLD and the truly superb ‘prehospital & retrieval medicine‘ blog in a
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Two things caught my eye this week – first was a link emailed from a colleague “I was just browsing the internet and read this about you” – pretty sure it was a phishing link, but turned out to be a link to ‘rate your MD’ an online bulletin board where patients can rate their
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Readers will be aware that I often have a (therapeutic) whinge via KIDocs blog – not least because of the constant battle to get equipment in our small country Hospital. It never ceases to amaze me that equipment deemed ‘essential’ elsewhere is considered an unnecessary frivolity in rural areas by the Health Bureaucrats. Of course
Things are coming together for the Rural Doctor Masterclass on Kangaroo Island in November. We’ve got a great series of speakers – but more than that, an action-packed tentative programme that will focus on small-group hands-on scenario testing. The whole purpose is to translate some of the new FOAMed concepts from abstract to practice