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Testing, Testing 1,2,3 Podcast
The Check-Up podcast by Medcast presents a 3-part series to support GPs to use pathology tests more effectively, and reduce the harms of non-rational test ordering.
READ ON![Clinical opal – Is it coeliac disease?](/media/hlubov0f/amanda-blog.png?width=800&height=600&v=1da4a150db33d30)
Amanda is a 26 year old speech pathologist who presents to you with longstanding gastrointestinal symptoms.
![Clinical Opal - Investigating Erectile Dysfunction](/media/hicovy33/patrick_ed.png?width=800&height=600&v=1d9bb04a4410c50)
Patrick is a 62 year old university lecturer who presents to you with erectile dysfunction.
![Clinical Opal - thrombophilia testing after a DVT](/media/u3plmxmv/dimitri.png?rxy=0.49998580881637417,0.49729616854716197&width=800&height=600&v=1d94ceb40555520)
It is 3PM on a Thursday afternoon and your next patient is Dimitri, a 54 year old groundsman. Dimitri is attending for review after a recent lower leg DVT following a knee arthroscopy.
![Clinical Opal - Gene Testing](/media/ef1av2lu/blog-image-21.png?rxy=0.48677012392542146,0.3855243529430263&width=800&height=600&v=1d9c9dd3106e0b0)
Your next patient is Belinda, a 54-year-old dressmaker and new patient to the practice. Belinda presents to you bearing a sheaf of printed material from the internet and asks for a request form for the MTHFR gene...
![Testing, Testing 1,2,3 - an exciting new Medcast project](/media/0ywhjdl0/testing-testing-1-2-3-1.png?width=800&height=600&v=1dac96ac61b1170)
Medcast is delighted to announce that we have been awarded a grant from The Department of Health and Aged Care Quality Use of Pathology Program (QUPP).
![Clinical Opal - To CRP or not to CRP? That is the question](/media/yfxeci4z/blog-image-11.png?rxy=0.5016560604369023,0.379569798105546&width=800&height=600&v=1d9cc6b26811120)
Sally, a 41-year-old primary school teacher, presents to you with a six-week history of being “tired all the time”...