Expectations of antibiotics may reflect a desire for symptomatic treatment, lack of awareness of other options or previous experience.

If a medical practitioner is to care for the whole person across their lifespan, they must have expertise in patient care across organ systems, treatment modalities and demographics.

We are more than the sum of our body parts. Our dignity and equality have practical implications for narrative, patient outcomes and influence in general practice.

Paying attention to communication is an important part of respect for patients, to foster the principles of patient-centred care and shared decision making, and to promote better medical outcomes.

Exploring our lives, as GPs, outside the clinic.

This article explores the benefits of having a system to accept and deal with patient feedback within a practice and identifies barriers preventing patients from raising their concerns directly.

The diagnosis of cancer is a life-changing event, and it can herald a long journey of anxiety, uncertainty and change.

This qualitative study explored Australian general practitioners’ attitudes, practices and educational needs to inform adaptation of the P3-MumBubVax intervention for primary care.

General practitioners’ ability to promptly recognise potentially serious side effects of treatment, especially those unique to newer therapies, can be crucial to patient safety.

Patients with severe and persistent mental illness who attend community mental health clinics have high rates of engagement with general practice care.

Expected frequency trees can be used to promote appropriate patient choice of colorectal cancer screening modality.

In two recent cases, Australian courts considered the role of professional guidelines in establishing whether doctors had met the required standard of care in a medical negligence claim.

This paper synthesises evidence-based frameworks of palliative care with other resources to guide GPs in the systematic delivery of high-quality, home-base palliative care.

Exploring our lives, as GPs, outside the clinic

This viewpoint discusses immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) drugs for the treatment of rare and less common cancers.