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Dr Rachel David is the CEO of Private Healthcare Australia, the private health insurance industry’s peak representative body that currently has 22 registered health funds throughout Australia and collectively represents 98% of people covered by private health insurance. Dr David was a medical adviser to the Federal Minister for Health between 1996 and 2000, and subsequently held senior positions with CSL Ltd and McKinsey & Company before taking up her current post in 2015.

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Dr Mark Horowitz is a training psychiatrist, split between UK and Australia, working in London as a Clinical Research Fellow in the NHS and an Honorary Clinical Research Fellow at University College London. He has completed a PhD in the neurobiology of depression and the pharmacology of antidepressants at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London and for this received two prizes from the British Association of Psychopharmacology. He is also the lead author of the recently published Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines, a handbook on how to safely stop psychiatric drugs.

AJGP article Antidepressant prescribing in general practice: A call to action

Royal College of Psychiatrists "Stopping anti-depressants" guidance

YouTube video for patients

NICE guidelines: Depression in Adults Treatment and Management

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Interested in addressing the lifestyle and social determinants of illness and wellbeing?  Check out the JCU postgraduate courses: Grad Cert, Grad Diploma, and Master in Lifestyle Medicine including social prescribing, health coaching and implementation science.

Our 3 week online microcredential in Lifestyle Medicine and Mental Health: Life and Mind available here.  

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Professor Julia Rucklidge is a Professor of Clinical Psychology in the School of Psychology, Speech and Hearing at the University of Canterbury and the Director of Te Puna Toiora, the Mental Health and Nutrition Research Lab.  Professor Rucklidge has been researching the interface of nutrition and mental health for 20 years and has published over 150 empirical papers.  Julia is also the recipient of numerous local and international awards and her TEDx talk, ’The surprisingly dramatic role of nutrition in mental health’ has been viewed close to 5 million times, and in 2021 co-authored a book, The Better Brain: Overcome Anxiety, Combat Depression, and Reduce ADHD and Stress with Nutrition.  Her online course is free and available here: University of Canterbury: Mental Health and Nutrition.

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Today I talk about a crucially important topic: taking care of yourselves.  This is perhaps more important now than ever before.  As health professionals we are almost conditioned to put other peoples health before our own, and whilst we must continue to care for others to the best of our abilities, we must also care for ourselves.  For without us in this current scenario, no one will be well.

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I hope this is of use to you.

Today is just me covering an overview of COVID19.  I certainly did not expect episode 100 to be about a new viral pandemic!  But there you have it.  Part 2 will be about self-care in these challenging times.

Today I am covering:

- COVID19 overview: Case fatality rate, symptoms, risk factors, spread, potential treatments

- Public health control: Testing options, Isolation impact

- Private Practice changes

- Community presence and support as health professionals

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Stay well friends.

Dr Eli Dabscheck is a respiratory and sleep physician, Department of Allergy, Immunology and Respiratory Medicine at the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria.  He holds an adjunct position at Monash University and is the Deputy Chair of the current Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Guidelines Committee.

Today we are discussing the latest COPD-X guidelines, with a focus on the "COP"; confirming the diagnosis, optimising function and preventing deterioration.  

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Dr Petra Skeffington is a clinical psychologist at the Cygnet Clinic in Perth.  She has a PhD from Curtin University and a Masters Certificate in Global Mental Health: Trauma and Recovery from Harvard Medical School.  She is the Western Australian State Chair for the Australian Psychological Society (APS) College of Clinical Psychologists, and Head of Psychology, Exercise Science, Chiropractic and Counselling (PESCC) at Murdoch University in Western Australia. 

Today we are discussing trauma and PTSD.  Please note this episode includes content of trauma and may be triggering for some people.

Dr Petra is speaking at the upcoming APS Clinical Psychologists Conference "Complexity in Practice" in Brisbane May 15-17. 

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Joel Salatin has been called "America's best farmer" by Time magazine.  He is a self-described Christian libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic farmer (his words, not mine!).  He runs Polyface Farms and has helped develop the movement of regenerative agriculture, written 12 books, done multiple TED and TEDMED talks, featured in Michael Pollan's bestselling book The Omnivores Dilemma and multiple award-winning documentaries like Food Inc, and he is the Editor of The Stockman Grass Farmer.

Today we talk about the symbiotic connection between the land, soil, animals and our health. 

More info at www.polyfacefarms.com

Joel Salatin's TED talk (one of them): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z75A_JMBx4

A different regenerative agriculture method called agroforestry by Ernst Gotsch that is not dependent on animals (this is a beautiful short film) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSPNRu4ZPvE&vl=en

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Dr Frank Meumann is a GP with 40 years’ experience and a senior medical educator with General Practice Training Tasmania. He received the 2010 GPET Medical Educator of the Year award for excellence in GP registrar training, and he is the past president of the Balint Society of Australia and New Zealand.

Today we cover an important but often overlooked topic - health professionals reconnecting and supporting each to manage the often difficult natures of our/their jobs, improving doctor-patient relationships and enhancing self-reflection and communication skills.  this seems particularly relevant to the current bushfire and drought crisis in Australia.  One well-established format is Balint Groups, and more can be found here; https://www.balintaustralianewzealand.org/

Book mentioned in the podcast = "Skills for Communicating with Patients, 3rd Edition", Jonathan Silverman, Suzanne Kurtz, Juliet Draper

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Dr Guy Leschziner is a consultant neurologist at London Bridge Hospital, the Cromwell Hospital and within the Department of Neurology and Sleep Disorders Centre at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals. He is the clinical lead for the Sleep Disorders Centre, Guy's Hospital, one of Europe's largest sleep units. He has presented a three-part series on BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service on the brain and sleep - "Mysteries of Sleep" and filmed "The Secrets of Sleep" for Channel 4 Television. 

Today we discuss his most excellent recent book "The Nocturnal Brain: Nightmares, Neuroscience and the Secret World of Sleep".

Website - http://www.guyleschziner.com

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