Ern Chang

Husband. Father. Son. General practice. Family Doctors Highton.

[Ern Chang @ernchang]

Getting a roomful of GPs from around the world to singalong to Hey Jude which just happens to coincide with Sir Paul’s current Australian tour! #WONCA2023 #Woncasydney #beatles

[Ern Chang @ernchang]

Lovely video presentation by the @RACGP at #wonca2023 about what we’ve done this past year as a College. Is the video available for viewing on other platforms?

[Ern Chang @ernchang]

Aaaaaand Victoria joins the party: https://t.co/i4ASYKHDwL

Stealthily.

[Dr Tammra Warby PhD in Virology & GP @DrTammraWarby]

Govt: med students don't want to be GPs, what should we do? Also Govt: let's freeze the medicare rebate for a decade, get GPs to vax everyone but call them 'non frontline' for their own, blame them for everything that's wrong, & then hit them with payroll tax. 🦗🦗#auspol23

[Ern Chang @ernchang]

@DoverMarian @drshenouda @janeenorman @abcnews @RuralDoctorsAus So good to hear this report just this morning on a local community radio station!

[Ern Chang @ernchang]

@brookmanknight I’ve recently added ACE to my extended HEAADDSS young person psychosocial history consults.

[Ern Chang @ernchang]

@stevenbollipo Actually a lot clearer than many other pathology request forms I’ve seen. I wish these could be electronically sent instead of handwritten or printed to reduce the risk of error. Clinicians could consider these as referrals to colleagues so more useful clinical info would be👍.

[Michael Rice @M_C_Rice]

@ernchang @PMalinauskasMP @abcnews @RACGP @AMAGenPractice Great primary care (aka GP) is invisible until it isn’t there.

Keeping folk from ED isn’t about ‘urgent care’ after a problem appears

It’s the months and years of preventive care that prolong healthy life. Everything else is picking up the pieces

[Ern Chang @ernchang]

Hi @PMalinauskasMP when you said on @abcnews 7.30 that people are rocking up sicker to EDs, have you stopped to consider that GPs have been holding back the floodgates by looking after patients well, and keeping them out of hospital until they cant’t? @RACGP @AMAGenPractice

[Ern Chang @ernchang]

@DrKate_Miller In Southeast Asia, chestnuts are roasted in a large wok usually over a charcoal stove, with coffee beans as the heat retaining medium. The flavours are awesome.

[Ern Chang @ernchang]

@Rosspipesy Silly me got my ED consultants mixed up. Michael Sheridan is who I was thinking about…

[Ern Chang @ernchang]

@Rosspipesy @Hertz Now worries, was wondering if Mick Ryan is doing the ride again this year too…!

[Ern Chang @ernchang]

@cvanestrop Would really appreciate a cycling-friendly piece in the Addy to counter all the online angst against bike riding and cyclists. What say you? :)

[Ern Chang @ernchang]

@BrentHodgson @bymyers Greens growth locally might be related to the fact that Dr Sarah Mansfield practises in Point Lonsdale, and has been active in local government and community engagement for several years.

[Ern Chang @ernchang]

@KarenMagraith I’d do the same. Make a colourful salad and cook the rice at home to go with the complicated takeaway I have no time to prep myself.

[Ern Chang @ernchang]

@QLDCountryGP @iv_coffee_stat Does Mavis sometimes bring baked goods?

[Ern Chang @ernchang]

Read the thread. This one tweet in the middle is spot on. The patient-doctor encounter is relational, not transactional.

[Daniel Chanisheff @DC_GSHealth]

5. Long term care with 1 GP or a good group goes a long long way. Find a good clinic, take your time to get in. Once you're in they'll tend to bend over backwards where they can when there's a good two way relationship. Avoid purely transactional relationships.

[Ern Chang @ernchang]

@diarmuidmccoy I believe @Robapark in QLD is en route! We have a number of colleagues who embrace this pathway.

[Ern Chang @ernchang]

@cameronsloy @GilliantheGP @DoverMarian On some overwhelming days as a GP practice owner, I transiently wish the government can buy over my busy practice, take over its day to day business activity, & pay me a salary to focus on providing the best care I can to our patients. Then that wish quickly passes. Phew.

[Ern Chang @ernchang]

@diarmuidmccoy Thanks for getting him dually trained as both a specialist GP and a specialist pain physician!