MedConversations

This is part 2 of our series on depression. Davor and Dean chat about how to evaluate someone you think might have depression. As fascinating as part 1 was, this is much more clinically relevant. Filled with Dean’s wisdom and clinical pearls, listen on if you want to smash your psych OSCEs or perhaps even to be a better doctor.

This episode is a bit of new thing we’re trying – interviews with our friends! As we’ve progressed in our careers, we’ve all started specializing and become increasingly unqualified to talk about large swathes of medicine. On the flipside, our mates have done the same thing in all manner of interesting fields, so we’ve decided to start utilizing this amazing resource.

In this episode, Davor talks to senior psychiatry registrar Dean Whitty about depression. This episode is an overview of the Black Dog – definitions, burden of disease and pathophysiology. To be completely honest, only the first 20 minutes or so are directly clinically applicable. If you decide to stay onboard for the whole journey though, you’ll get Dean’s fascinating thoughts on whether you can make epidemiological conclusions across cultures, the different models of depression and how you might be able to unify them, as well the inherent tension between the biological and psychosocial approaches. We’re planning on following this one up with episodes on evaluation and management.

Welcome seeker. All the bacteria. All the antibiotics. Join us on our ambitious multi-episode trek to summarise all bacteria and their treatment starting this episode with gram positives. Your journey will teach the ancient wisdom that tazocin does not fix all problems and that “beta lactamase inhibitor” is not just a mantra ID registrars use to confuse you. At the pinnacle you will meet a new MedConversations member who will share her wisdom that a life well-lived involves hourly breaks for milk and urination.

Curious about what all those party drugs you’ve been taking with your grandma down at the local aged care facility are? Wondering why you always need to cough after you’ve taken your morning ramipril?

Jump on board the high pressure conga line with Rahul and Davor as we cover the ins, outs and sideways of hypertension therapy.

Episode on radiculopathy!

Davor, Bec and Scott sit down and chat about nerve roots. Well, to be honest, it’s more like Davor relentlessly interrogates Bec and Rahul about radiculopathy for an hour. Although ethically questionable, it appears to have worked because by the end they seemed to understand which nerve roots are damaged by which disc, how to differentiate between L5 and other causes of foot drop and lots of other cool stuff. Hopefully you will too!

This is also the first episode we recorded with our new equipment. We saw some of the feedback about audio issues, and we reckon things sound much, much better with our new gear. If you’ve stopped listening because you were sick of it sounding like one of us was in a different room, give this ep a whirl.

We’re back with a mammoth topic. Often consigned to a 1-liner in the past history – it’s time to find out just how little you know about the silent killer. Much like the mounds of hair that accumulate in your drain pipes, hypertension is known for a sudden and unexpected day-wrecking by blocking up your plumbing.

Sit back, grab the saltiest nuts you can find and prepare for part 1 of our bigger than Ben-Hur epic on the mechanisms and pathophysiology of hypertension.

Low back pain! Rahul and Davor discuss one of the most common presentations in medicine. What are the most common causes? What are the most serious causes? Who do you image? What on earth does Rahul mean when he says “test the anal reflex”? Listen in to find out the answers to these eternally-vexing questions and more.

There’s been a lot of demand for off in the weeds neurology podcasts. Luckily we have our arcane neurology specialist Davor ‘The Slovenian Sledgehammer’ Pavlin-Premrl ready and waiting.

Rahul and Davor discuss cartesian dualism and hysteria, and then after about half an hour of philoso-broing we get to some stuff that might (emphasis on the might) be clinically useful

Apologies for the sound quality – we are still working out some remote-casting CoVID solutions

We’re back in the COVID era all the way from dirty Melbourne to breathe around your masks and cough on your food.

Have you been fighting with your bed-partner about excessive nocturnal noise emissions? Struggling to stay alert whilst reviewing the latest hydroxychloroquine ‘Orange’ Paper from the White House?

Well we’ve got the podcast to get you inspired before you expire. Strap on your CPAP mask and get ready to fly the skies of knowledge with Bec, Scott and Rahul.

Drugs. Death. Hidden infections. Bad mix tapes.No, you’re not tripping out on LSD at your uncle’s mail-order bride wedding, you’re just listening to MedConversations’ latest educational podcast packed full of infective endocarditis wisdom and copyright infringing references to one of our most beloved fictional drug dabblers.