Australian Family Physician audio

Careful foot assessment is an important part of GPs' comprehensive care of people with diabetes. In order to be effective, these assessments need to be carried out thoroughly and reliably. Dr Rajna Ogrin, a podiatrist in a high risk foot clinic, describes an evidence based approach.

Dr Jonathan Cohen presents a timely update on the pharmacotherapy of glycaemic control and other factors that modify cardiovascular risk for people with type 2 diabetes. Metformin is usually the first line, but what comes next?

General practice is all about listening to our patients as they tell us the story of their health. Dr Chris Pearce discusses the impact that both computers and evidence-based medicine are having on our ability to practise in this patient centred manner. If we lose the patient's narrative, do we lose the plot?

Adolescence is a difficult time for most teenagers, but when you have a chronic illness such as diabetes it can be really tough. The onslaught of physiological, anatomical and psychological changes can be quite overwhelming. Associate Professor Fergus Cameron from the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne discusses the challenges teenagers with diabetes face and how to approach their complex health needs.

During adolescence major hormonal, neuro-maturational, emotional and psychosocial changes occur within a relatively short time interval.

Careful foot assessment is an important part of GPs' comprehensive care of people with diabetes. In order to be effective, these assessments need to be carried out thoroughly and reliably. Dr Rajna Ogrin, a podiatrist in a high risk foot clinic, describes an evidence based approach.

Diabetes has long been associated with increased risk of foot ulceration and lower extremity amputation.

Dr Jonathan Cohen presents a timely update on the pharmacotherapy of glycaemic control and other factors that modify cardiovascular risk for people with type 2 diabetes. Metformin is usually the first line, but what comes next?

Patients with diabetes have a high cardiovascular risk. In addition to achieving good glycaemic control, cardiovascular risk reduction is a vital component of management.

General practice is all about listening to our patients as they tell us the story of their health.

The doctor-patient relationship is crucial to the practice of medicine and yet the rise of science in the 19th and 20th centuries shifted doctors’ focus away from the patient toward another entity: the disease.