Dr Tom Podcast

Weight gain? Easy to do. But losing weight is difficult… and the challenges include stress, poor dietary habits, and lack of tracking. Key steps: measure waist circumference and track food intake. Take care of your...

It was a frustrating day. When one thing goes wrong… It often seems to snowball into everything going wrong. Yet there are lessons… the importance of paying attention to details and the potential consequences of...

The complexity of medical conditions has significantly increased, especially with the rise of chronic conditions that require ongoing care and management. Traditional models of acute care are no longer sufficient,...

Until something is tested, only assumptions can be made about it. When tested, we now know how it will perform. With the amount of change and difficulty, we are experiencing in medicine… Knowing how someone performs...

How do you eat an elephant? With attention spans getting shorter (and ADHD diagnoses going up!)...  Understanding the relationship between consistency and certainty in your life is critical. Listen to this for more.

How you start your day is important. If you said you would do something, and when the moment came… you folded? There are consequences that are significantly more than first appearances would suggest. Listen to learn...

GPs are constantly faced with the challenge of getting people to change. Yet, once the patient walks out the door… The responsibility for making those changes rests with the patient. Having a powerful framework for...

It is easy just to jump in and start solving the problem “as it appears”. But this often leads to a solution that does not truly fix what is going on. Some of the best time invested in any problem situation, is to...

General practitioners have a superpower! The power to see into the future for a particular patient… How? They have already seen hundreds of people who made choices in their health… and where that left them.  Learn...

How others behave can have serious implications for you. What you do when you see such behaviour is important. The easy option is to let it slide and just hope nothing bad happens. Or you can implement a powerful...

Many doctors face difficult patients through our work. How you deal with them is important! Both for you and for them. Listen to this now to discover the potential hidden benefit that you may be missing from your...

My mentor laid down the rules… Go live now and every day… or you don’t get to ask any more questions. Why would this even be a requirement? Listen to find out the reason.