Prescribing the right pharmacological treatment for generalised anxiety disorder can be tricky.

Take quetiapine, for instance, which is widely prescribed off-label. But despite its effectiveness, the

I could hear the scream from across the room.  It was shrill and filled with panic.  Any parent can identify the difference between the cries of normal toddler discomforts and a true emergency.

I

GPs are at the forefront in combatting a new epidemic — but it’s not an infectious disease that has public health experts concerned.

An epidemic of silicosis has emerged among workers in the

Patients regularly bamboozle me. Recently, their favourite way has been to bring in a large bag of mixed herbs and bottles from the chemist, eBay or China; and sometimes all three.

I used to smile

Around the world, vaccines are in retreat, shunned by populations who, for the most part, have never been exposed to the diseases that blighted or shortened the lives of their grandparents’ generation

Do we need a new word for discharge summaries?

In this country, the US, we bulked them up and renamed them 'Transition of Care Documents' and they made life more complicated in many ways.

The

Cancer remains a frightening and largely incurable disease.

The toxic side effects of chemotherapy and radiation make the cure often seem as bad as the ailment, and there is also the threat of

The Supreme Court of Victoria delivered a landmark ruling late last year that a state tribunal had violated two patients’ human rights when it forced them to undergo electroconvulsive therapy for

In my surgery, I sit at my ­grandmother’s kidney-shaped wooden desk with its leather top. My view from the desk is a high window with a glass shelf, lined with patent medicine bottles of all sizes,

Last week, I was surprised to read an article in Australian Doctor that included patently incorrect claims about general practice, a confused perspective on Medicare funding, and a one-dimensional