Medical Journal of Australia
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Oct 29, 2026
Ginni MansbergGUEST
whatsapp group they're you know their group chats so there's there's that if you find a good gp please be kind and share that i do think When I first started on this journey, the tales of horror that I would hear were just like mind-blowing.
Ginni MansbergGUEST
And the most recent data that we had in Australia, which was a study published in 2023 in the Medical Journal of Australia, said that 80% of women have symptoms in perimenopause severe enough to see a doctor 10% got evidence-based treatments.
Ginni MansbergGUEST
That was just like mind-blowing.
Ginni MansbergGUEST
So bad.
Ian HickieHOST
And there's been a lot of publicity in recent times, and worse than publicity.
Ian HickieHOST
For example, there's an article in the Medical Journal of Australia in the last little while by leading general practitioners in the country arguing that antidepressants don't really work very well and most people should stop them.
Ian HickieHOST
right?
James O'LoghlinHOST
Sure.
Ian HickieHOST
I'm saying medical doctors.
Ian HickieHOST
Yes.
Ian HickieHOST
Medical Journal of Australia.
Ian HickieHOST
Yeah.
Renee WhiteHOST
Now, let's talk about the boom, all right? Let's talk about those numbers.
Renee WhiteHOST
A study in the Medical Journal of Australia looked at Medicare data for children aged zero to four from 2006 to 2016, and phrenotomies went from about 1.2 per thousand children to about 6.4 per thousand.
Renee WhiteHOST
So that is 420%.
Renee WhiteHOST
In the ACT, the rate went up more than 3,700%.
Chris Pepin-NeffGUEST
which Victor Copelson then does.
Chris Pepin-NeffGUEST
He writes an article for the Australian Medical Journal and does sort of a literature review of all the articles he's gotten back, the letters from the editors that he's gotten back from literally from all around the country.
Chris Pepin-NeffGUEST
And he says, having compiled all this data, the evidence that sharks will attack man is complete.
Chris Pepin-NeffGUEST
That is a quote.
Ian GawlerGUEST
But then through his interest in pain management, it got involved in meditation.
Ian GawlerGUEST
And he advocated in the middle of 1975 in an article in the Medical Journal of Australia, or he hypothesized, it's probably a better word, that intense meditation might reverse the progress of cancer.
Ian GawlerGUEST
And that was groundbreaking and fascinating.
Ian GawlerGUEST
brought a lot of grief on his head, actually.
Ian GawlerGUEST
And one of the curious things that happened in my veterinary profession is from fairly recently, actually, I'd have people come in for the next consultation and I'd say, where's the cat? And they'd look a bit sheepish of you.
Ian GawlerGUEST
and say, well, I haven't got an animal.
Ian GawlerGUEST
I want to talk to you about, you know, dad's cancer or this cancer I've got and And I was getting a lot of, I sort of, when I recovered, Ainsley Mears wrote my story up in the Medical Journal of Australia and then the press got hold of it.
Ian GawlerGUEST
So I got a fair bit of publicity and a lot of people inquiring about what had happened and how I got well.