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Author: Michael Woodhead, 6minutes editor
Michael Woodhead is the editor of 6minutes. He has worked as a medical journalist and editor for more than 15 years. Before that, he studied to be a pharmacologist in the UK, and made the move to Australia in 1996.
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Dr Google beats Dr Bing ( 2 Comments )

Polypill may be a bit less poly ( 0 Comments )

One flu over the cuckoo's nest ( 0 Comments )

Unlike politicians, doctors tend to stick around ( 0 Comments )

Could stem cells cure blindness? ( 0 Comments )

Big Pharma become Team Pharma ( 0 Comments )

Old soldiers are fading away ( 0 Comments )

Never mind the quality ... get the points ( 1 Comments )

When the test fails the patient ( 0 Comments )

Health-ageddon here we come ( 1 Comments )

Death by a thousand clicks ( 8 Comments )

Blurring the boundaries and viral risks ( 0 Comments )

The Minister for Managers ( 4 Comments )

Stop the internet I want to get off ... ( 0 Comments )

What's on TV? ( 1 Comments )

Look at the states we're in ( 1 Comments )

Family doctor or team doctor? ( 1 Comments )

The joys of booking stuff online ( 0 Comments )

Anything to declare? ( 2 Comments )

What we're twittering about ... ( 2 Comments )

It's not the pandemic that's making a killing ( 2 Comments )

iPhone, iPod ... iDoc? ( 7 Comments )

Patient journeys - all aboard ( 1 Comments )

Old habits die quite easily ( 1 Comments )

Health reform for dummies ( 3 Comments )

School for bad habits ( 2 Comments )

There's more to life than medicine ( 0 Comments )

Moving on from Movember ( 0 Comments )

If pain persists, see a spin doctor ( 0 Comments )

Nothing to it ( 2 Comments )

Nights of the living dead ( 1 Comments )

Web 2.0 and medicine ( 0 Comments )

All human life is here ( 0 Comments )

Dobbing in creates a climate of fear ( 0 Comments )

It's an ecosystem out there ( 0 Comments )

Lesson from a late night in the ED ( 1 Comments )

It's those lazy doctors again ... ( 0 Comments )

Beijing: beware of smog and dog ( 0 Comments )

Phone helplines don't connect ( 3 Comments )

There's always someone worse off ( 0 Comments )

Who owns your genes? ( 0 Comments )

Vaccine provokes cranky reactions ( 8 Comments )

In doctors we trust ( 0 Comments )

Let’s learn from success against HIV ( 0 Comments )

Never mind the polls, how’s your LDL? ( 2 Comments )

Cracking open the TGA ( 1 Comments )

Keep on till you hit a century ( 5 Comments )

Let the YHA run hospitals ( 0 Comments )

2020 ideas lost in translation ( 4 Comments )

Are you prone to gizmo worship? ( 3 Comments )

Loss of a blogger friend ( 1 Comments )

Guilty until proven innocent ( 2 Comments )

Scorecards or smokescreens? ( 2 Comments )

Medical bloggers get younger ( 0 Comments )

The 6minutes trivia quiz ( 0 Comments )

To intervene or not? ( 6 Comments )

Ups and downs of corporate medicine ( 6 Comments )

How much are you worth? ( 1 Comments )

Don't mention the F-word ( 3 Comments )

It’s all downhill from here … ( 1 Comments )

What you don’t know … ( 2 Comments )

The joy of sickies ( 3 Comments )

Back to the real basics ( 0 Comments )

Spare the sweets, spoil the child ( 0 Comments )

Turning over a new leaf ( 0 Comments )

Be careful what you wish for ( 0 Comments )

Coalition vs Labor on primary care ( 0 Comments )

Lest We Remember ( 2 Comments )

A promise is a promise ( 0 Comments )

Medicare is sick, but not Sicko ( 2 Comments )

A double dose of dodgy data ( 0 Comments )

You can teach an old drug new tricks ( 0 Comments )

I should have been head of Glaxo ( 0 Comments )

Hitting bowel cancer with a blunt stick ( 2 Comments )

Happy birthday to us ( 0 Comments )

Clinical trials must come out of closet ( 2 Comments )

Happy birthday, Pill ( 1 Comments )

Medical bloggers, beware ( 2 Comments )

Shake your booty ( 0 Comments )

Generation Y enters general practice ( 0 Comments )

Bye bye beta blockers? ( 2 Comments )

Are you too old for Facebook? ( 11 Comments )

If you want a fair trial, kill someone ( 6 Comments )

No confidence in the coroner ( 5 Comments )

Something fishy about this antibiotic scare ( 0 Comments )

Undignified rush for Indigenous health checks ( 2 Comments )

Capsules to be taken every 50 years ( 0 Comments )

Caterpillars, climate change and cardiac disease ( 0 Comments )

MBS fatigue at the AMA conference ( 0 Comments )

The other epidemic – loneliness ( 2 Comments )

Men’s health is too blokey for me ( 1 Comments )

Fat lot of good, that is ( 3 Comments )

Another day, another medical miracle ( 0 Comments )

Methods, results, confusion … ( 0 Comments )

It's not what you know ... ( 0 Comments )

Is avian flu the new Y2K bug? ( 2 Comments )

Minister, your blog sucks ( 5 Comments )

Condolence letters: a dying art? ( 2 Comments )

I’m all for duel therapy ( 1 Comments )

Fatalism v. high anxiety ( 0 Comments )

The Chinese Paradox ( 0 Comments )

I’m leaving on a jet plane …. ( 0 Comments )

Going forwards in 'pre-hypertension' ( 0 Comments )

Bloggers 1, Bureaucrats 0 ( 2 Comments )

Medicare stops at the gums ( 1 Comments )

Oh what a lovely war ( 1 Comments )

Year of the pig ( 5 Comments )

No confidence in pharmacies ( 7 Comments )

AIDS denial is no joke ( 1 Comments )

Long live the fascists ( 1 Comments )

What's in a name? ( 3 Comments )

A prescription for conscription ( 0 Comments )

Nothing to declare (but my genius) ( 0 Comments )

Welcome to the Silly Season ( 0 Comments )

My top six for 2006 ( 4 Comments )

I'm biased in favour of independence ( 1 Comments )

A Christmas tale ( 0 Comments )

Health minister wanted, no experience required ( 0 Comments )

Should patients rate their doctors? ( 1 Comments )

Thinking outside the COX ( 3 Comments )

Let’s put our divisions behind us ( 2 Comments )

End of the antibiotic era ( 1 Comments )

Rural doctors matter more than phones ( 0 Comments )

What a performance ( 1 Comments )

Are your friends electric? ( 0 Comments )

Vote 1 for Gardasil ( 0 Comments )

Backing a winner in primary care ( 0 Comments )

Haunted by former patients ( 0 Comments )

Medical bloggers are thin on the ground ( 3 Comments )

Take a look at 6minutes TV ( 2 Comments )

Talking about asthma with the experts ( 0 Comments )

Men should be high maintenence too ( 1 Comments )

Doctors in ads? No thanks ( 5 Comments )

The other docs who deserve a thank you ( 0 Comments )

Christmas cheer for Crestor? ( 0 Comments )

So what is this 6minutes? ( 0 Comments )

Australian Doctors – where are you? ( 7 Comments )

 

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