Australians want to exercise more, but change can be challenging. Persistent, gentle, evidence-based support can help these resolutions become reality.
Every doctor has experienced heartsink with the realisation that the next patient encounter will be difficult. Engaging with heartsink issues is demanding and uncomfortable but necessary.
Chronic pelvic pain can be challenging for practitioners but more especially patients. Understanding its nature and the range of available therapies can assist significantly.*
Pain due to musculoskeletal conditions is difficult to express and define and is often overlooked in consultations.
This issue of AJGP examines musculoskeletal conditions – how these cause pain and how to manage the multitude of ways in which these impairments affect the lives of our patients.
Medical publication is increasingly complex as the information environment becomes crowded. AJGP places the welfare of patients at the forefront, providing evidence-based and interesting content.
Australian general practice has much in common with Paracelsus. Our connection to patient environment and lived experience are the foundation of both our insight and our impact.
We celebrate the longstanding role of nutrition in general practice and its increasing prominence in clinical practice.
Over the past 10 years significant improvements in technology underlying ophthalmic diagnosis and treatment have led to marked improvements in visual outcomes for patients.
AJGP presents two initiatives and invite your submissions: a case study that is a collaboration between a medical student with their supervisor; and a new series, ‘Beyond the clinic door’.
This editorial highlights and champions the success of general practice in enhancing the lives of all Australians and supporting those in need.
Providing care for key reproductive life stages (preconception, after miscarriage and at medical termination) is discussed. A program for enhancing responses to domestic violence is also explored.
The differing cognitive frameworks and life experiences of GPs have brought varied approaches to problem solving and patient engagement into the profession.
General practice represents the synergy between mechanistic and humanistic cognitive paradigms – promoting the best of science and technology, while placing the patient and their welfare centrally.