Most health content tells you what to do. On The Mend also shows you how your GP practice actually works, told by the people inside it.
On The Mend started with a simple observation: patients have plenty of questions that never get asked in a 15 minute consult. Why do doctors run late? What does a care plan actually do? Why are out-of-pocket fees rising? What happens in a skin check?
So we set up microphones inside the practice and started answering them. Each episode is a short, honest conversation recorded with the people who live these questions every day.
On The Mend is an independent podcast made by people who work in general practice every day. It is recorded inside real, working clinics in Melbourne, and guests come from across the industry, whichever practice or service they call home.
Doctors explaining the topics patients ask about most, in plain language: skin checks, men's health, screening and prevention.
The people who keep a practice running share what really happens behind the front desk, and why the system works the way it does.
Physios, audiology services, pharmacists and other providers who work alongside GPs to look after the same patients.
Episodes are kept short enough to watch in a waiting room. Everything we publish aims to be factual, balanced and free of hype. We talk about risks as well as benefits, and we do not make claims about treatments or outcomes.
Guest credits are simple statements of fact about where someone practises. Nothing on this podcast is an advertisement for a specific treatment, and nothing replaces advice from your own GP.
Today: episodes recorded in Melbourne's south east, playing in clinic waiting rooms and online.
Next: guests and stories from practices right across Melbourne and Victoria, because every clinic has people worth hearing from.
The goal: a place where any Australian can understand what happens inside general practice, from every angle.
GPs, nurses, receptionists, practice managers and allied health providers are all welcome. If you have a topic to explain or an experience worth sharing, we would like to hear from you.
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