The Round Up: A Rural Health Podcast

Gout is the most common inflammatory arthritis in society and without intervention can have a long-lasting impact on quality of life. Primary healthcare providers, like GPs, will regularly see presentations of gout and need to be aware of the best treatments available for their patients.

Join your host, Dr Elissa Hatherly as she chats all things gout with JCU Medicine Dr John Wood, a rheumatologist at Cairns Hospital. Dr Wood shares why gout is such a common presentation for primary care practitioners and what they should know about acute treatment options.

There are a lot of important considerations that go into ensuring our veterans get the care and support they deserve. Just as every veteran has their own story about military service, each will require a tailored approach to treatment from their primary healthcare providers.

Join your host Dr Elissa Hatherly as she chats with Townsville GP and veteran, Dr Michael Clements about how to best care and advocate for veterans. Their conversation covers everything from navigating the Department of Veterans Affairs system, referrals, new claims, impairment assessments, and common conditions, to even what it means to be a veteran and how that influences the care you provide.

No matter your role in primary care, this episode is sure to provide you with useful tools and greater insight into how to better support your DVA patients.

Disc prolapses and their associated symptoms can have a debilitating impact on a patient's quality of life. Compounding the problem, patients may put off seeing their doctor for treatment or have a repeat prolapse. So when is surgery the best option for your patient?

Join your host Dr Elissa Hatherly as she chats with Dr Deborah Lees from Cairns Hospital Orthopaedics. Dr Lees provides helpful advice and insight on diagnosing and treating disc prolapses and how to get the best result for your patients.

Treating patients in residential aged-care facilities (RACF) is an important part of general practitioners' role in caring for North Queensland communities. Navigating RACF care can be a daunting prospect for GPs. There are plenty of considerations, like complex care needs, prescription processes, best practices on recording keeping, telehealth billing and communicating with patients, their families and care facilities.

Join your host Dr Elissa Hatherly as she chats with Townsville-based General Practice owner Dr Chris Stelmaschuk. Dr Stelmaschuk provides plenty of useful tips and tricks for GPs treating patients in residential aged-care facilities.

Managing the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTOP) is not as difficult as we might imagine, but the care we provide must focus on what’s important to our patients.

Join your host Dr Elissa Hatherly and learn how Mackay GP, Dr Jasmine Davis, navigates providing this service from her regional general practice. Dr Davis also works in Mackay's Sexual Health Clinic and is an advocate for access to Women's Health services across Northern Queensland.

Sleep plays an important role in our overall health and well-being. For a variety of reasons, getting a good night's sleep can be difficult, and that's where more targeted treatment may come in.

Join your host Dr Elissa Hatherly as she talks to local pharmacist Karalyn Huxhagan about commonly used medications to treat insomnia, and pharmacist Glen Clark who provides insight into melatonin metabolism and its effects on sleep.

Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) will be available to eligible Queenslanders from 1 January 2023. VAD is an end-of-life choice that gives eligible people who are terminally ill the option to control the time and manner of their death through medical intervention.

Join FACRRM GP and JCU MBBS Alumnus, Dr Max Ryder who chats to your host Dr. Elissa Hatherly about VAD legislation changes and how we can assist our regional, rural and remote patients at end of life.

Want to know more about treating PTSD and trauma? Tune in to the latest episode of The Round Up: A Medical Podcast and join your host Dr Elissa Hatherly who talks to guest speaker Dr Paul Henderson about who is affected by trauma, tips on starting a conversation with those affected by trauma and how to get patients started on their treatment journey.

Take a look at how asthma is being managed in the post-COVID world. 🦠

Hear from Dr Pranav Kumar, who talks to Dr Elissa Hatherly about new treatments for asthma patients and provides his tips and tricks on how to manage asthma in this new era.

Dr Pranav Kumar is a Consultant Respiratory Physician at Mackay Private Hospital and an expert with a broad array of experience in lung conditions. He has published research in major peer-reviewed journals and is a highly skilled clinician and proceduralist.

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Dr Gopakumar Hariharan discusses the common causes of physiological neonatal jaundice, and how to manage this in the community or in the hospital setting.