Episode 6 introduces the scintillating senior GP registrar, Dr Shannon Armstrong-Kempter to Lejeune Family Medical Practice!!! Dr Armstrong-Kempter is due to return from maternity leave and will be working part time with our doctors here. She brings with her various interests in aspects of woman's health as well as a global perspective on the overlap of medicine and education.

Dr Shannon Armstrong-Kempter's blog can be found at: https://petersensgonewild.wordpress.com/ 

We hope you enjoy this in-depth interview! 

Listen to the end for two bloopers from the interview!

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This week, we catch up with Dr Alan Ng who is serving his last few weeks in the public hospital system before he takes the plunge into General Practice Training.

Dr Michael Smith and Dr Ng compare notes on training, approach to medicine, career and family as well as what it means to be at the service of patients.

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Sound credits:

1) Oppressive Gloom Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

In Episode 004, we look at the My Health Record, sharing stories that have been in the media but also positive aspects from a patient's perspective, with thanks to Healthily and their GoShare platform, www.healthily.com.au 

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From our family to yours, the staff at Lejeune Family Medical Practice wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year's Resolution!

Join Dr Michael Smith as brings the sounds of excited children unwrapping presents around the Christmas tree.

Losing even small amounts of weight can make big differences to chronic conditions such as osteoarthritis, hypertension and diabetes mellitus. Increasing your incidental exercise is one way to help with the battle of the bulge.

Also, imagine what life could be like if you were to ditch the cigarettes for good?

Listen to episode three for authoritative and helpful information on weight loss and smoking cessation with thanks to Healthily and their GoShare platform, www.healthily.com.au 

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Lejeunecast...it's French for gesundheit! Quite fitting actually, given that the word in German means health and is often used to forestall illness. That's what we are all about at Lejeune Family Medical Practice and this podcast.

Episode 2 introduces our indefatigable and dynamic office manager who meets with patients who have signed up to our weekly walking group. We also feature an extensive episode from GoShare regarding what meal times might look like for families with eating disorders as well as the types of support that exist out there for these troubling times. We look at ways to achieve less painful injections which will interest kids, teenagers and adults alike!

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With thanks to www.healthily.com.au for again making available audio from their GoShare platform.

Welcome to our first podcast!

We are super excited to bring to our patients, colleague doctors, students, parents and affiliated organisations our Lejeunecast! Please subscribe to this and future episodes.

We discuss preventable admissions to the emergency department, whether junior schoolboy rugby is as dangerous as made out, a new platform to reach patients by their general practice, advance care planning and an interview with our practice nurse.

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References in order of mention:

1. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Australian hospital statistics 2009–10. emergency department care and elective surgery waiting times. Canberra: AIHW, 2010. (AIHW Cat. No. HSE 93; Health Services Series No. 38.) http://www.aihw.gov.au/publication-detail/?id=6442472405
2. https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/hospitals/ahs-2016-17-emergency-department-care/contents/table-of-contents
3. Yusuf Nagree, Vanessa J Camarda, Daniel M Fatovich, Peter A Cameron, Ian Dey, Andrew D Gosbell, Sally M McCarthy and David Mountain,Med J Aust 2013; 198 (11): 612-615 
4. Richardson DB, Mountain D. Myths versus facts in emergency department overcrowding and hospital access block. Med J Aust 2009; 190: 369-374. 
5. David J Buckley, Paul W Curtis and Joseph G McGirr, The effect of a general practice after-hours clinic on emergency department presentations: a regression time series analysis,Med J Aust 2010; 192 (8): 448-451
6. https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/injury/serious-childhood-community-injury-in-new-south-wa/contents/summary
7. www.heathily.com.au
8. "Oppressive Gloom" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/