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Wired Wrong

A recent event in my life is the driver for this blog. My friend and I were confronted by a distressed individual who had crashed into my friend’s stationary car. We arrived on the scene seconds after it had happened and the vehicle was being driven away but was damaged to the extent where a rapid exit was not an option.

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Poor health and chronic inflammation.

The root cause of western-style diseases that will affect over 50 per cent of us, limiting our lifetime wellness and increase our timeline of disease, is chronic inflammation.

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So here’s a thought.

Throughout my working career as a general practitioner I was increasingly aware, both from experience with my patients and through the media, that the inequality of treatment for First Nation Peoples and people of colour was endemic.

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New Year’s Resolution

Several decades ago, with the introduction of patient electronic records for medical practitioners, the ability to use simple paper based pathways was lost as the practice management system companies made it impossible or near so, to individualise the way in which we were able to usefully manipulate patient information.

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Sweet Twilight

Sweet Twilight…The finality of the pursuit of dreams, of successes, of failures, of embarrassment, and elation.

The end of a professional romance…

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Bad Bugs

I have just watched a program on television about antibiotic resistance and the ‘gold’ that the doctors are holding in their hands and are supposedly intent on denying future generations.

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