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Miss Medic & Malice are in the studio to talk about Jared Rougheads recurrent melanoma and a new treatment to fight it. Malice also does a follow up to McZiffs segment last week looking at personality traits of Donald Trump and a chat bout Four Corners report on complementary medicines. Theres also discussions about the DSM-5 - the standard classification of mental disorders used by mental health professionals in the U.S. and a new initiative of the Victorian Government to get GPs into secondary schools.

McZiff, Per Partum and SK this week talk about assisted dying legislation, Peri talks about the film Lion and the issues behind destitution and abandonment of children. McZiff also talks about Donald Trump and anxieties people may have about him. Plus guest microbiologist Jason McKenzie chats to the crew about recent cases of Ross River Virus.

Its the first episode of 2017! The doctors are ready to bring a whole great amount of info and education about all things health. On this episode, Malpractice hosts a great panel of guests and topics! Peri Natal looks at the psychological effects shown in the recent film Split (as well as the psychological effects of tennis). Dr Junior talks about the health benefits and negatives of the Mediterranean diet. Also EpiPen talks immunisation in pharmacies.

Your podcast doctor was actually a little sick for the last few months. Yes, we trailed off there at the end of 2016 and misseda few episodes there, many apologies! But never fear, we are going to publish these last two episodes for you and get our new episodes for 2017 up ASAP!

On this episode you have Annabolics and SK talking all things medicine (and a small film review as well from SK).

Your podcast doctor was actually a little sick for the last few months. Yes, we were short for a few episodes in 2016, but never fear, we are going to publish these last two episodes for you and get our new episodes for 2017 up ASAP! We certainly can't miss those podcasts for your ears as they are both great informative stuff!

On this episode, your hosts are Malpractice, EpiPen and Dr Nick (with guests) talking all things medicine, health and goodness.

On this episode, Dr Melanie Tan, a doctor AND lawyer talks to the team about her work and her thoughts on how all clinicians can better handle legal issues. There is also chat about the Greens new drug policy, plus a look at new strategies to reduce Australia's obsession with gambling. Drs DoLittle, Trainer-Wheels & Lex Judicarta are your panel for today!

Autonomy, Malice, Lollydoc & Ms Medic are all in the studio this week and they have a packed show as always. They talk about the recent thunderstorm asthma outbreak that happened in Melbourne on Monday. They have two special guests on the show this morning as well - Dr Debbie Hocking (Clinical Psychologist) and Dr Samantha Loi (Psychiatrist) who volunteer at Melbourne's Asylum Seeker and Refugee Health Hub. Lastly Malice talks about self-care for health practitioners who work with trauma.

Annabolics and McZiff are in the studio and are re-joined by two of the Radiotherapy team who have been away for some time! SK and Tallman return to the airwaves for this show to re-unite and catch up on whats been happening over the year for them. But we hear about the psychological and health effects of the Trump victory, developments in the treating of auto-neurone disease, and SK return with his movie talk and this time around, he looks at Kevin Costners Criminal (with spoilers) which focuses on memory and neurone science as well.

Note: There is some small amounts ofswearing in this ep!

The doctors have a special show talking about the latest developments in diabetes with Professor Peter Common - director of diabetes and endocrinology at the Royal Melbourne Hospital as well as Gordon Bunyun, and advocacy and community support for people living with diabetes. You have the team of Malpractice, Dr Nick and EpiPen will also talk about shingles and anti-biotic resistance.

Dolittle and Dr Capri talk with Sam Gledhill from the Movember crew tell us all about their work (now the biggest men's health charity in the world!). Plus we're talking about actual, really radiotherapy with Doctor Real McCoy! And also Dr Pat is in the studio with the latest on new laws to allow marijuana to be grown for medical purposes.

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