This Medical Life

In this episode, we discuss three common conditions in medicine: recurrent acute otitis media (AOM), otitis media with effusion (OME), and sleep disorders in children.

Charles Dicken’s first novel has an adolescent boy named Joe who was overweight and always sleepy. He could fall asleep at any time, even during

Willem J Kolff was an intern when he saw a 22 year old man die of kidney failure. He realised that the patient’s life could have been

One in 10 Australians over the age of 18 years are living with signs of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) with the number of patients needing

The statistics of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) and Domestic Violence prevalence are staggering. 1 in 6 adult women and 1 in 16 adult men have

Oral cancer was a fatal disease even into the twentieth century. Patients required extensive surgery and often had a painful recovery or went into palliative

The first medical description of pernicious anaemia is from 1821. It is written by Dr James Combe and describes a previously well 47 year old

One of the most difficult cancers to detect early has been lung cancer. Patients often present with advanced disease that and can often be fatal.

In 1966, the Chief of Urology asked the Chief of Pathology at the Minneapolis VA Hospital to develop a system to communicate the results of

Over the last 100 years, numerous types of implants (i.e. ivory, glass, wool) and injections (i.e. epoxy resin, beeswax, paraffin) have been used in an

The interplay between genetics and medications is important but complex. Pharmacogenomic testing provides doctors with information about how individual patients may respond to certain medications

In 1924, a surgeon and a pathologist had a conversation about some patients with multiple bowel polyps. The pathologist, Dr Cuthbert Dukes, and the surgeon,