Whether you are working in suburban Melbourne or a refugee camp in Bangladesh, bacterial meningitis is a diagnosis that sends shivers up doctor’s spines and makes lumbar puncture needles suddenly impossible to find. Join us as we demystify that most red-flag of infections, covering everything from what to order on the LP to impress the ID team, how to treat it , and how to differentiate from encephalitis or other differentials.

Tired of getting yellow cards from the infectious diseases team for prescribing meropenem for 3 months? Sick of Scott appearing behind you with a cat o’ nine tails to administer the requisite antibiotic punishment? Well this episode has it all … Continue reading →

2023 got you feeling out of rhythm? Finding yourself a bit behind the beat when it comes to pacemakers? Pour yourself a frosty, frothy, fibre-filled glass of your favourite plum juice and strap on your electric earmuffs. We're going charging on an audio adventure from cathode to anode with Scott and Rahul.

You know that feeling when you find a surprise $100 note in a coat pocket you haven’t worn for a while? Yeah, we don’t either. But we can imagine it feels kind of like discovering we have a MedConversations episode … Continue reading →

Intimidated about caring for immunosuppressed patients full of mibs, mabs or stem cell jabs? Here is the infection protection guide to investigate and manage your patient’s neutropenic slump – without resorting to well-evidenced super foods like goji berries or sheep … Continue reading →

Psychiatry registrar Dr Dean Whitty is back on the MedConversational airwaves again to talk with Bec about taming the black dog in our final ep of the three-part depression series. Dean’s soothing voice takes us on a nice guided tour … Continue reading →

The MedConversations crew may not fly the surgical flag very much but we love flying into the melee of perioperative management. So get peri with Bec and Scott as we dance around and about* the drug chart of the pre-op … Continue reading →

Weary traveller, let Rahul, Bec and Jupiter’s 79 moons be your guides as we haul you up the third and final segment of the hypertension series. At the summit we take you on a high pressure hike through the assessment … Continue reading →

This episode is for everyone who is sick of COVID-19 but needs to finally learn how to diagnosis and manage it, rather than how to out-argue your uncle about whether the plan-demic will end democracy. We go through diagnosis, testing, … Continue reading →

Nasty Bugs. You gotta treat ‘em! In this, truly, tremendous second antibiotic episode, Sleepy Scott, Deranged Davor, Crooked Bec (and Obama Zala) cover all the gram negative bacteria – from microbiology to antibiotics and resistance. Believe me, you’ll be tired … Continue reading →

This is part 2 of our series on depression. Davor and Dean chat about how to evaluate someone you think might have depression. As fascinating as part 1 was, this is much more clinically relevant. Filled with Dean’s wisdom and … Continue reading →

This episode is a bit of new thing we’re trying – interviews with our friends! As we’ve progressed in our careers, we’ve all started specializing and become increasingly unqualified to talk about large swathes of medicine. On the flipside, our … Continue reading →

Welcome seeker. All the bacteria. All the antibiotics. Join us on our ambitious multi-episode trek to summarise all bacteria and their treatment starting this episode with gram positives. Your journey will teach the ancient wisdom that tazocin does not fix … Continue reading →

Curious about what all those party drugs you’ve been taking with your grandma down at the local aged care facility are? Wondering why you always need to cough after you’ve taken your morning ramipril? Jump on board the high pressure … Continue reading →

Episode on radiculopathy! Davor, Bec and Scott sit down and chat about nerve roots. Well, to be honest, it’s more like Davor relentlessly interrogates Bec and Rahul about radiculopathy for an hour. Although ethically questionable, it appears to have worked … Continue reading →

We’re back with a mammoth topic. Often consigned to a 1-liner in the past history – it’s time to find out just how little you know about the silent killer. Much like the mounds of hair that accumulate in your … Continue reading →

Low back pain! Rahul and Davor discuss one of the most common presentations in medicine. What are the most common causes? What are the most serious causes? Who do you image? What on earth does Rahul mean when he says … Continue reading →

There’s been a lot of demand for off in the weeds neurology podcasts. Luckily we have our arcane neurology specialist Davor ‘The Slovenian Sledgehammer’ Pavlin-Premrl ready and waiting. Rahul and Davor discuss cartesian dualism and hysteria, and then after about … Continue reading →

We’re back in the COVID era all the way from dirty Melbourne to breathe around your masks and cough on your food. Have you been fighting with your bed-partner about excessive nocturnal noise emissions? Struggling to stay alert whilst reviewing … Continue reading →

Drugs. Death. Hidden infections. Bad mix tapes.No, you’re not tripping out on LSD at your older uncle’s mail-order bride wedding, you’re just listening to MedConversations’ latest educational podcast packed full of infective endocarditis wisdom and copyright infringing references to one … Continue reading →

If you naively thought that part 2 of glomerulonephritis would never come and you could spend the rest of your summer wallowing in glorious ignorance of those confusing glomerulonephritidis then you were wrong. Here are the rest of the nephritic … Continue reading →

Davor’s back doing his Davor thing and sprucing neurology to the world (whether they want to hear about it or not). So, if the holiday blues have you feeling numb to the world or passion for the new year has … Continue reading →

Has your troubled history of pot plant homicide led to legal action over your plant carer registration AND/OR  your grandmother giving up on you and gifting all her cuttings to her previously second favourite grandchild? We can't help you with your congenitally absent green thumb AND/OR unlovable personality but this practical episode on clinical fluid assessment will keep your patients from either wilting away or drowning in bottomless bags of normal saline.  

Dust off your ear horn, ruffle up your ruffles and prepare your first-born son for a painful but career-favouring transition. Bec and Scott are back and hitting every high note as they croon, roar and trill their way through hypercalcaemia