Dr Tom Podcast

The difficulty and risk of general practice in Australia have increased due to an aging population presenting with chronic medical conditions,  This has meant longer consultations and ongoing management rather than...

Fewer and fewer medical students are choosing GP… Why? The work of GP has changed. But the way GP works has yet to. This has meant medical students see the problems and difficulties and are saying no.

Pharmacists seem keen to be able to diagnose and prescribe… It seems easy enough! But they should pay attention to why they are even being asked to do this work. If they don’t understand why… what happens when they...

The way we learn new skills is important. On the path to new skills, there will be breakthroughs. But what happens next has a significant impact on the speed of skill acquisition. Learn more now.

The cost of medicine is rising dramatically in Australia. Because of the unusual splits in how healthcare is funded in Australia, the federal government can cost shift medical care costs onto the state governments by...

A maelstrom is now upon general practice. And unfortunately, it's not going to be easy or likely it's going to be fixed. Medical students know the general practice has problems and don't want to do them. Baby Boomer...

General Practice has often been able to get away with poor business practices.  Why? Essentially the problems of marketing, advertising and selling just don't exist. There is a continuous supply of patients requiring...

Big changes have been made in 2023 to the continuing professional development for doctors. One important factor to be aware of is the time frames are now one year instead of 3. The second is that 50 hours must be...

Gp Software evolved from paper notes… And from a time when most medicines were acute medicine. But now, the focus is on chronic medical conditions and preventative health. Both of these require a different mindset...

And so 2022 comes to a close, and the GP crisis may just be getting started. We are not at peak medical demand, yet the centre of Australian health care is crumbling. Listen now to learn why Australia’s neglect of...

How much would you charge for your services as a GP if there was no item 23? One of the most destructive aspects of a 23 has been to constrict the value provided by GPs to such low levels. Listen now for a thought...

There is one item number in Medicare that has largely kept GP afloat for the last ten years... Even with the Medicare freezes, this was enough for GP Practices to squeeze enough blood from the stone to survive. But...