The New Zealand General Practice Podcast

Dr Dave this month covers the Sustaining GP Wellbeing toolkit for local GPs in Canterbury, the importance and process of adverse reaction reporting via BPAC, a safety alert about genetic susceptibility to general anaesthetics in patients of Venezuelan maternal origin, permanent changes to Cremation Regulations for deaths in long-term residential or specialist palliative care, new ACC Return to Work Guidelines for elective orthopaedic surgery, the Groov mental wellbeing app, Australian deprescribing guidelines for older people, the updated SPUMS handbook for recreational diving medical assessments, and recent research on gluteus maximus shape predicting type 2 diabetes risk and the gut microbiome’s role in auto-brewery syndrome

This month Dr Dave teaches Dr Jo about Youth issues, Choking, Sexual violence disparities and Looksmaxxing. There us an update on Insulin and Abnormal uterine bleeding guidance. There is some reassuring news about MHT and all-cause mortality.
Brief intersting topics like Dry eye and vitamin D, topical anaesthesia for IUD placement, and  "Jess’s rule" aimed at preventing delays in diagnosis are discussed.
There is an update on Paediatric asthma and Post vaccination observation and a few laughs along the way.

Dr Dave teaches Dr Jo about recent clinical updates on diabetes diagnosis, whole-body MRI screening, sepsis management, privacy law changes, smartphone effects on youth, safe prescribing resources, prescribing alerts, and thanks to Dr Andre Bonny for his resource on alcohol-related harms in New Zealand.

Apologies for the delayed publication and sound quality this month - hopefully this is still useful.
Dr Dave teaches Dr Jo about · UTI in children, Gynaecomastia, Fournier gangrene, Zoledronic acid in the elderly, GLP-1 Ras – skin and eyes, Coffee after AF ablation, Paracetamol in pregnancy, Morphine and breathlessness
and our equity focus this month is on , CVD risk assessments, and Cancers and excess body weight
We talk about the MCNZ statement on use of AI, GP2GP, Meningococcal disease and The Pitt.

Dr Dave teaches Dr Jo about Dengue fever, adhd pre-testing and monitoring, that statins are (probably) not as bad as people make out, and that antdepressants may not be the cause of as much cardiovascular issues as previoulsy thought. There is also a reminder about CKD and informing patients even if it is mild, adult sinusitis, sepsis, 12 month prescribing, and ADHD respurces. They finish with the virtues of line dancing and owning cats.