Dr Kerri Parnell, B App Sc (OT) B Med FRACGP MMH (GP), has been a GP since 1989, and has worked with Australian Doctor since 1997, becoming the editor-in-chief in 2008.
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This is the painful transitional phase we find ourselves in with the e-health record. If we’re lucky, in the coming years we’ll have a record that gives all healthcare providers seamless access to…
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This week we touch on a long-term bugbear of mine: the outrageous claims of alternative medicine practitioners and, even worse, the claims of manufacturers of snake-oil products, such as SensaSlim.…
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According to the AMA and many doctors, proposed amendments to the laws around pharmacists could be seen as a kind of good news, bad news scenario. From July next year the need to both write a series…
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Instead of writing about a story in Australian Doctor this week, for a change I thought I’d shine a light on the plight of our colleagues, where there’s a controversial proposal to ban GP locums from…
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"In an unprecedented move, psychologists and psychiatrists around the world are railing against the next version of the psychiatric bible, the DSM-5, to be published in 2013. Urging people to sign an…
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"It's been a bumpy road for the newer anticoagulants. Way back in 2004, I remember writing about the FDA subcommittee's recommendation on the thrombin inhibitor, ximelagatran, much hyped as a huge…
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"'Never was the chasm between front-line clinicians and back-room policy-makers wider than in their respective attitudes to clinical guidelines,' UK professor of primary health care Trish Greenhalgh…
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"As doctors, many of us have looked at the pharmacy profession with admiration over the years. Unlike GPs, pharmacists have been noted for their unity in the face of struggles with government."
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"It's been a bad week for vitamins. Two major studies have added to the growing evidence that most supplements are at best useless, and at worst harmful."
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The hyperbole about the 'feminisation' of the medical workforce conjures forth images of 9-5 practices replete with soft pillows, pink frilly curtains, staffed by 'lady doctors' who do little except…