No 1008: March 18, 2010
eNews is a weekly electronic newsletter
sent to all GP practices (with email addresses) within the
Chronic Disease Management Diabetes: It’s More Than Glucose
Control
Professional Development CPD events
HMR Update in hypertension and risk reduction for
Acute Coronary Syndrome
Information Management Medical Director Tips
Items of interest Aboriginal Health - National Close the Gap Day,
New website for
News for Practice Staff Setting
up Specialist Clinics, The Diabetic Foot and Wound Care Seminar for
Nurses
Paediatrics Royal
Children’s Hospital Strategic Plan Survey
Women’s Health The
Ins and Outs of Vaginal and Breast Health
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Diabetes
Friday 7th May at Sofitel Melbourne. Visit www.bakeridi.edu.au or phone (03) 9258 5053 for more information.
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Thursday
25th March, 7-9pm (dinner from 6.30pm) at John Scott Meeting
House, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
Influenza,
Pertussis and Travel Immunisation
Update. Presenter:
Associate Professor Joseph Torresi. Please note: There has been a change of
speaker. Flyer
Wednesday
April 14, 7- 9pm (Registration: 6:30pm) at John Scott Meeting House,
Meetings are held each Tuesday starting at 12.30 in the
Lecture Theatre, Ground Floor,
March 23 - Paediatric Sports Injuries - Mr Jit Balakumar
For full term Tuesday lecture program click here
“Problem solving
with cardiac MRI” presented by Dr Maurice Molan
Wednesday
24th March 12:30pm John Lindell
Lecture Theatre, Level 4,
Opposite Medical Library. PRECEEDED
BY lunch in Education Precinct Breakout Area at 12 noon.
Thursday
20th May - “Getting Plastered” – a hands-on casting evening workshop
for GPs and PNs. Mr Gerard Powell (orthopaedic surgeon)
will be guest speaker. At
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Wednesday 7 April, 7-9pm, refreshments from 6:30pm (main speaker 7.45pm) in Northern Division training room. For GPs, Practice Nurses & Pharmacists.
The session will cover:
· Guideline approach
· Evidence for risk reduction
· Evidence for use of various antihypertensive drug therapies
· Emerging concerns regarding frequency of use, adverse effects
· Adherence issues and Case examples
· HMRs (Item 900) - Working together GPs, Practice staff, and pharmacists
This session is eligible for 4 CPD points (GPs); 2 CPE points (Pharmacists – Cat 1 activity).
Enquiries to Jenny Gowan on Tel. 8480 4611. RSVP by FaxBack. Click here for flyer.
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You may wish your nurses to view investigation results. You do this by going to the Tools menu -> Options… -> Investigations -> Display results to staff tab. This Options setting is for that computer only. Other computers, such as those at reception won’t be allowed to view results unless that option is turned on for their computer.
Question: How do you merge duplicate patients?
Answer: There is a comprehensive section on this in the MD help file – I suggest you use this. Clicking on the Merge button on the patient opens the Merge Patients Wizard. You can use the Source field to see where the secondary patient record has come from. This assists you in determining exactly which patient record you need to keep. The following options may be present:
· Billing - If the secondary patient has come from a billing package.
· External - If the secondary patient was imported from another file (perhaps from another surgery).
· Locum - If the patient was imported using a third-party locum service.
· MD - If the patient was originally created in Medical Director.
· Pathology - If the patient was created automatically upon importing Investigation Results. If such results are imported for a Patient that doesn't exist, Medical Director will automatically add the patient to the Patient Database.
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National Close the Gap Day will be held on 25 March this year. You can get involved
and join the thousands of people around
VACCHO (Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health
Organisation) will be hosting a Community BBQ for the National Close the Gap Day
on Thursday
March 25 from 12 to 2pm at
For a series of Question and Answers on these changes visit the Department of Health and Ageing website.
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This week’s edition includes: PM addresses AMA Parliamentary Dinner; AMA participates in 12th Annual Health Conference; Primary care debrief for pandemic H1N1 2009.
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Friday 16 April. 9.30am-4pm at St Michael’s on Collins (
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Work has commenced on the development of a new three-year RCH strategic plan which will take in the move to the new RCH occurring next year. As part of a broad consultation process with a range of stakeholders, rural and regional GPs are invited to contribute your views about the direction of RCH by completing an on-line survey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Rural_RegionalGPs. The survey should take approximately 10 minutes to complete and should be completed by the close of business on Tuesday 23 March 2010. Should you have any queries about the strategic planning process, please contact Jane Miller on 9345 5134 or email jane.miller@rch.org.au
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Wednesday 28 April, at 2.15pm Presented by The Jean Hailes
Foundation for Women’s Health. Attend via
videoconference: Individual and
site registrations 03 9927 7777 or email events@gthevents.com or online www.gthevents.com. Or attend in person at
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Please note: only new ads or resubmitted ads will be posted here. All other
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Doctors
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Northcote - F/T P/T VR GP or Subsequent Trainee GP position. Fully accredited, computerised, long established doctor owned practice in a new purpose built facility with a fabulous work environment. Ancillary Health, Pharmacy and Pathology services on site. Inquiries Diane Cronin (Practice Manager) 9481 1214. Visit our website www.doctorsofnorthcote.com.
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The following is an actual question given on a
Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs
heat)?
Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law (gas
cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some variant.
One student, however, wrote the following:
First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need
to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate at which
they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to
Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for how many souls
are entering Hell, let's look at the different religions that exist in the
world today.
Most of these religions state that if you are not a member of their
religion, you will go to Hell. Since there is more than one of these religions
and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that
all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the
number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of
change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for the
temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to
expand proportionately as souls are added.
This gives two possibilities:
1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter
Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell
breaks loose.
2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop
until Hell freezes over.
So which is it?
If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa during my Freshman year
that, 'It will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you,' and take into
account the fact that I slept with her last night, then number two must be
true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has already frozen over.
The corollary of this theory is that since Hell has frozen over, it follows
that it is not accepting any more souls and is therefore, extinct......leaving
only Heaven, thereby proving the existence of a divine being which explains
why, last night, Teresa kept shouting 'Oh my God’.
This student received an A+.
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And remember…
…Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxis and cutting hair.