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Sophia Samuel

Email: sophia.samuel@racgp.org.au

Clinical challenge

Case 1Jerry BergerJerry, 68 years of age, has mild COPD. He presents at the clinic during your morning session with rapid onset shortness of breath and difficulty swallowing. You immediately assess...


Clinical challenge

Case 1: Darren BurrowsDarren, 24 years of age, was elbowed in the head during a football match and is worried by tingling in his right forearm.Question 1Which of the following is true regarding...


Clinical Challenge

Case 1Anna BeluseAnna, 33 years of age, is a new patient in your practice. Anna reports that she has suffered from cold intolerance, heavy menses and mild depression for a year. She shows you...


Clinical challenge

DIRECTIONS Each of the questions or incomplete statements below is followed by five suggested answers or completions. Select the most appropriate statement as your answer.Case 1Towards a tobacco...


Clinical challenge

Case 1Edith Hui-Zhong WangEdith, 71 years of age, is a Chinese calligraphy enthusiast who lives with her son and his family. She has consulted you previously regarding minor ailments. Her son...


Editorial: Contraception: LARCs first?

Care more particularly for the individual patient than for the special features of the disease.1What is the best contraception available for most Australian women? It depends on whom you ask...


Editorial: On the threshold

In Thasus, the wife of Philinus … on the fourteenth day after delivery was seized with fever attended with rigor; was pained at first in the cardiac region of the stomach and the right...


Editorial: Considering domestic violence in clinical practice

There are some days when I don’t turn on the nightly news. Tragedies and momentous events have occurred far away, but not to anyone on my street or at my work, and I can’t do anything anyway. I...


Editorial: GPs and vulnerable populations

I had an unexpected consultation with a former patient. Kate, as I’ll call her, dropped in ‘just for a script’ and we talked a little about her current situation and plans for the future. She had...


Editorial: Measuring and managing complexity

Hormones. In certain consultations, female patients aged 15–55 years often use the word ’hormones’ to frame their presenting complaints. Could it be, they ask, that hormones are implicated in...


Editorial: Paradigm shifts

Clinical breakthroughs seem to come along sporadically, often after many years of incremental scientific discoveries. However, only occasionally does a paradigm shift occur. What we thought we knew...


Reflections on wisdom and self

One of the tensions in medicine is between a preventive and reactive approach to disease. On the one hand, we know that attaining that elusive goal, the healthy lifestyle – free of stress and vices...


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