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Hot Topics free webinar presenter in New Zealand discovers children with asthma admissions aren't necessarily recorded in practice.

Adam is a 34-year-old maths teacher who is usually fit and well, with no significant past medical history.

Our bad experiences of mental health care with health professionals

Total Intravenous Anaesthesia (TIVA) has become an increasingly popular choice for anaesthesia, as alternatives to volatile agents. Surgical technique advancements and increasing utilisation of day hospital centres have created an environment where minimal downtime after general anaesthesia is highly desirable.

Dave is a 33-year-old carpenter who presents to you with a painful red leg.

What have we learned from the last lockdown? Does having a job and being an introvert make it any easier?

In this podcast Dr Alison Vickers and Professor David Jenkins discuss the role of physical activity in preventing and management of osteoporosis.

School teachers have been hit hard by COVID-19. Since the start of 2020, teaching roles and demands have changed significantly. One key change was the rapid addition of new online methods of teaching. This was crucial to cater for students still in the classroom and those who had to learn at home during lockdowns or quarantine.

“What a night...we needed it!” This was one of many responses to a musical soiree I held at our home on a Sunday evening in late May. The flood in expressions of gratitude reflected how much we all valued playing and reconnecting. This was an inaugural event, an idea to get some of our Musicus Medicus members together again.