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Glenn Duns

MDCM, FRACGP, MPH, is Medical Editor, Australian Family Physician and a general practitioner, Mill Park, VIC

Cancer and primary care

The one disease that broke through this sense of medical omnipotence was cancer. Inevitably, we’ve all known, personally or professionally, someone with cancer: the childhood classmate who goes off...


Challenges and rewards A career as a generalist

This combination of perceived crisis and need has resulted in many individuals and groups trying to define, promote and strengthen the generalist approach. The Australian Medical Association issued...


Clinical challenge

Case 1: MavisMavis is an office worker aged 58 years who presents with a 2-year history of worsening left knee pain and swelling that are now preventing her from playing golf. Her body-mass index...


Constructing quality health policy

With recent attempts by the government to introduce changes to Medicare, it is important for those of us working within the system to revisit the evidence regarding delivery of primary care, in...


Editorial: An update on obesity

In this issue of Australian Family Physician (AFP), we provide an update on the understanding and treatment of obesity. There has been much discussion in the media about the obesity ‘epidemic’ and...


Editorial: Cognitive errors in the management of skin conditions: Rash decisions and alternative facts

One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong. – William OslerTo err is human – Alexander PopeWe all make...


Editorial: Dissecting the thorax

On a bright autumn day in 1990, I crossed the threshold of the anatomy building at McGill University and climbed the marble staircases up to the dissection laboratory on the second floor. An...


Editorial: Neurology and current knowledge

As we near the end of another quality improvement (QI) and continuing professional development (CPD) triennium, the issue of keeping up with new developments in medicine comes to mind. The concept...


Editorial: The sporting life

In this issue of Australian Family Physician (AFP) on sports medicine we cover topics that I consider very relevant, both personally and professionally. Like most people, I try to remain as active...


Holding the fort

The patient-centered medical home is a model that has been adopted by many organisations worldwide. It describes an approach to the delivery of primary care that is family-centered, accessible...


Editorial: Medicine and the environment

General practice education emphasises the fact that the individual cannot be separated from the environment and that environmental factors exist beyond the biological. A nutritionist may focus on...


Regeneration

On the morning of Saturday 7 February 2009 I was working at a medical clinic in Whittlesea, Victoria, located about 40 km northeast of Melbourne. Finishing around noon, I walked across the parking...


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