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Consultant Emergency Physician and Palliative Medicine Trainee Physician, Clinical Associate Lecturer at the School of Medicine, The University of Queensland

Modern medicine too often posits doctors as mechanics and people as machines needing to be fixed. Neil Kumar/Unsplash

January 22, 2017

Medicine for older people is the same for anyone else: treat the person, not just the body

Bill Lukin, The University of Queensland

A model that has the body at the centre and a reductionist view of disease fails to respond to the suffering of the person.

Doctors are often asked to give prognoses, but they can’t be sure of how long patients will survive. Christine Gleason/Flickr

February 22, 2016

How much time have I got, doc? The problems with predicting survival at end of life

Sarah Winch, The University of Queensland; Bill Lukin, The University of Queensland, and John Devereux, The University of Queensland

Predicting how long a patient will survive is critically important for them and their families to guide future planning, yet notoriously difficult for doctors to predict accurately.

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