For this article, qualitative interviews were conducted with heavy drinkers to explore their experiences of discussing alcohol use with their general practitioner.

This article reviews nutritional considerations in patients who drink at risky levels or have alcohol dependence. It aims to enhance GPs’ awareness of nutritional considerations in this patient group.

Treating GPs have an obligation to report impaired medical student patients if the GP forms a reasonable belief that the medical student patient has put the public at substantial risk of harm.

This article explores the themes of patient choice, safety and optimising success in GP-led withdrawal. The four-step framework outlines how to best support patients to undertake a withdrawal.

Patients prescribed high doses of opioids need to be managed appropriately to reduce risks of morbidity and mortality.

This discussion emphasises the importance of accurately describing the nature of chest discomfort and using appropriate terminology to facilitate an appropriate diagnostic work-up.

Once considered rare, Gilles de la Tourette syndrome is now understood to be relatively common, occurring in approximately 1% of school-aged children.

Patients with symptoms of possible acute coronary syndrome require careful risk stratification usually requiring urgent referral to hospital.

A woman aged 55 years presented to her general practitioner with intermittent episodes of dizziness, sweating and shakiness for the past four months.

The aim of this study is to identify persistent symptoms in unvaccinated community-managed patients following COVID-19 infection.

A woman aged 42 years presented with left-sided facial pain of three weeks’ duration.

How should GPs and patients prioritise which preventive health activities to undertake?

Diagnosis of PCOS in an Aboriginal primary care setting is being performed correctly and at a young age; however, subsequent screening of cardiometabolic risk and emotional wellbeing needs more work.

The pandemic statistics highlight the need for ongoing, careful follow-up of all patients with COVID-19 with regular screening for likely long-term persistent neurological involvements.