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Everyday Medicine with Dr Luke

Dr Luke Crantock

Conversations with colleagues exploring their special interests in medicine and bringing to you Insights, ideas and advice for your medical practice.

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Podcast 184. Memory with Dr Natalie Grima

Everyday Medicine with Dr Luke ·

2025/12/16

Memory is the cognitive process of acquiring, storing and retrieving information. It's the mind's ability to encode, store and recall experiences and knowledge, allowing for learning, adaptation, and the formation of personal identity. There are different types of memory, including short-term memory, where information is held briefly and long-term memory, where information is held for extended periods. There is sensory memory where information relating to senses such as sight, sound and

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Episode 183. Obesity Redefined with Dr Melissa Beitner

Everyday Medicine with Dr Luke ·

2025/11/20

Obesity has reached crisis levels in Australia, with 67% of Australians classified as being overweight or obese (2022 data). BMI measurements have been used in epidemiological studies to define overweight individuals with a measurement of 25 kilograms per metre squared and obese individuals with a BMI measurement of more than 30 kilograms per metre squared. It is now recognised, however, that BMI-based measures of obesity may both underestimate or overestimate adiposity and provide inadequate

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Episode 182. Molecular Pathology with Dr Pranav Dorwal

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2025/10/28

Molecular pathology combines molecular analysis with traditional morphology and immunohistochemistry to understand disease at its most fundamental level. The field continues to evolve as new discoveries enter clinical practice.Through molecular pathology, our knowledge of genetic mutations and targeted therapies has expanded. It is now rare for a tumour report to omit genetic findings. This discipline, while distant from daily clinical work, underpins treatment algorithms and prognostic models.The

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Episode 181. Ovarian Cancer with Professor Thomas...

Everyday Medicine with Dr Luke ·

2025/10/06

Each year in Australia, there are about 1,800 new diagnoses of ovarian cancer and over 1,000 deaths, making ovarian cancer the fifth most common cause of death from cancer in women. The lifetime risk is about 1.6%, increasing to 5% if a first-degree relative is affected, and 45% and 25% respectively if the BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation is present.The median age of diagnosis is 63 years, with two-thirds of patients diagnosed at 55 years or older.Histologically, tumour cells may arise from the outer

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Episode 180. Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy with Dr Neil...

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2025/09/15

On a recent vacation to Exmouth on Western Australia’s far North coast, home to the amazing Ningaloo National Park, I had the pleasure of meeting Anaesthetist and outdoor adventurer Dr Neil Banham. I discovered that when Neil wasn’t kiteboarding, his daytime job was Director of Hyperbaric Medicine at Fiona Stanley Hospital in Perth. Our conversation exposed my deep ignorance of the potential use of HBOT beyond the management of air and gas embolism and piqued my interest in the various conditions

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Episode 179. Oncology in General Practice with Dr...

Everyday Medicine with Dr Luke ·

2025/09/01

Cancer is one of the biggest health challenges worldwide. In 2021, about 15% of all deaths were cancer-related. In Australia, there are approximately 624 cases of cancer per 100,000 people, an incidence which has increased by about 7 % over 20 years, with an estimated 43 % of people being diagnosed by the age of 85 years. On a positive note, improved oncological medicine and care have reduced mortality by about 25 % which is very reassuring. The top ten cancers diagnosed in Australia, starting with

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Episode 178. Uterine and Cervical Cancer with...

Everyday Medicine with Dr Luke ·

2025/08/18

Uterine cancer is the fifth most common cancer in females and the most common cancer of the female genital tract in Australia, with about 3,300 cases annually and 660 deaths. The major prevalence is in women between 50 and 70 years, and the quoted major risk factors include: early onset menarche and late menopause, obesity, nulliparity, unopposed oestrogen treatments, polycystic ovaries with prolonged anovulation, extended use of tamoxifen for breast cancer treatment and Lynch syndrome, which

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Episode 177. Sleep Hygiene with Josh Leota

Everyday Medicine with Dr Luke ·

2025/08/05

The pace of modern life may not give many of us the time to stop, rest and recover with a good night’s sleep, yet sleep is as important for good health as diet and exercise. Regular healthy sleep improves brain performance, mood and health. Poor sleep hygiene is associated with increased risk of heart disease, stroke, obesity, impaired immune and cognitive function.Sleep consists of two distinct states as shown by EEG: REM sleep (rapid eye movement sleep), where dreaming occurs, and non-REM sleep,

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Episode 176. Death from the Feet Up with Mr Allan Abbott

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2025/07/14

Falls in the elderly are associated with significant morbidity and, after a serious fall, indeed predict the transition within a year of 10-15% of seniors to long-term care facilities. Additionally, the one-year and three-year mortality for seniors is 16.4 % and 40.5% following a report of more than one fall in the past 3 months (about double the average). When a hip fracture complicates the fall, the all-cause mortality is three times higher than for the average population and as high as 27% in one

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Episode 175. Mobile Anaesthesia with Dr David Canty

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2025/07/02

Mobile anesthesia is a unique concept in Australia closely related to office-based surgery (OBS) a term used internationally for any surgical or invasive procedure performed outside hospitals with these procedures taking place in private practices or ambulatory surgery centers and often involves various levels of anesthesia, including general anesthesia, moderate sedation or deep sedation. In Australia mobile anesthesia has become particularly relevant in dental treatments and radiological

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Episode 174. Volume Exercise and the Heart with Dr...

Everyday Medicine with Dr Luke ·

2025/06/16

The Greek messenger Pheidippides famously ran 42 kilometres from Marathon to Athens delivering news of victory in battle before dropping dead, still a young man. Pheidippides was undoubtedly fit and an accomplished runner as he had been a Greek herald messenger his entire life. Was his untimely death due to excessive exercising or unforeseen preexisting cardiac risk factors? This stand-out story mirrors the sad death last year of champion athlete and Queensland iron man Dean Mercer, aged 47 years,

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Episode 173. Artificial Intelligence and Medicine...

Everyday Medicine with Dr Luke ·

2025/06/03

Artificial intelligence is a wide-ranging branch of computer science concerned with building smart machines capable of performing tasks that typically require human intelligence. It is widely accepted that artificial intelligence computer systems will be used extensively in Medical Sciences. Common applications are likely to include illness diagnosis, end-to-end drug discovery and development, improving communication between physicians and patients, transcribing medical documents, including history

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Episode 172. Oral Medicine with Dr Asef Anwar

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2025/05/22

Good oral health is fundamental to overall health and well-being, and a person's quality of life is compromised without it. By Oral health, we are referring to the condition of a person's teeth and gums, as well as the health of the muscles and bones in their mouth. Tooth decay, gum disease and tooth loss affect many Australian children and adults and contribute 4.5% of all the burden that non-fatal diseases place on the community. Most oral health conditions are largely preventable, and it

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Episode 171. Questions in Cardiology with Dr James...

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2025/05/06

Cardiovascular disease is a major cause of mortality in Australia, responsible for around one in four (24%) of all deaths. On average, around 120 people in Australia die from CVD each day - equivalent to one person every 12 minutes. 40% more men die from CVD compared to women. With these statistics in mind, it is perhaps as well that the field of cardiology appears to be galloping toward the future with exciting treatments to manage this substantial burden of disease. We are witnesses to the

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Episode 170. New Treatment Modalities for Cardiogenic...

Everyday Medicine with Dr Luke ·

2025/04/21

One in five people will develop heart failure in their lifetime. Half will have preserved ejection fraction- HFpEF, which is becoming increasingly prevalent, the other half have heart failure with reduced ejection fraction- so-called HFrEF. Separate to these two entities an extreme form of heart failure is cardiogenic shock. This most commonly occurs after acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and complicates AMI’s in 5-10% of cases. Cardiogenic shock is a clinical syndrome characterised by decreased

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Episode 169. Being Vision Impaired with Dr Murray...

Everyday Medicine with Dr Luke ·

2025/04/08

Vision Australia estimates there are 453,000 people in our country who are blind or have low vision. This number is predicted to grow to over 560,000 people by 2030. Low vision refers to the ability to see at only 6 meters what a normal vision could see at 60 meters. It also refers to a restricted peripheral vision narrower than 20 degrees in diameter. Such people need to use devices, technology and adaptive strategies to keep doing the things they enjoy. Conditions such as age-related macular

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Episode 168. How to exercise well with Murray Stewart

Everyday Medicine with Dr Luke ·

2025/03/24

Helping our patients attain good health holistically consists of diagnosing and treating their organic diseases, assisting them in achieving a healthy mental and emotional state as well as providing education on the fundamentals of a balanced diet, sleep hygiene, supportive relationships and exercise. With over 65% of Australians recognised as being either obese or overweight, promoting and detailing a practical exercise plan should be one of our key health objectives for patients coupled with

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Episode 167. Low-Calorie Meal Replacement with...

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2025/03/11

Obesity has become a major public health concern, with an estimated 34% of Australians classified as obese—defined as having a body mass index (BMI) of 30 kg/m² or more due to excess body fat. It is now the second leading risk factor for chronic disease in Australia, increasing the likelihood of developing type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome (including cirrhotic liver disease), osteoarthritis, and several types of cancer, as well as contributing to higher all-cause mortality.While the

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Episode 165. Vascular Fistulas - The Door to...

Everyday Medicine with Dr Luke ·

2025/01/16

As a background to this podcast in 2021 there were 15 200 Australians with kidney failure receiving dialysis, a doubling of the number receiving dialysis from 2000 with a male-to-female ratio of approximately 2 to 1. 82% of these patients were receiving chronic haemodialysis all of whom required an arterio venous vascular shunt for access. A small proportion (18%) were being managed by peritoneal dialysis and in that year, there were 857 functioning kidney transplants. Of the haemodialysis patients

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Episode 164. Regenerative medicine with Dr Kiryu Yap

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2025/01/16

The field of regenerative medicine is likely to significantly change how we practice medicine in the future with some amazing capabilities -harnessing the power of stem cells to restore form and function of damaged tissue. The potential of regenerative medicine has already being recognised in the areas of immunotherapy and bone marrow transplantation however the future is likely to see many further shining examples of its promise ,application and capability. Consider the possibility of injecting

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