A working library of PBS authority sheets, clinical pathways and patient guides — built for my own consulting room at Young Street Medical & Dental Centre, and shared here in case they help yours too.
A quick word before you dive in: this first issue pulls together the developments from the past year I think will actually touch our consulting rooms — not the press-release noise, but the things a patient will ask about, or a guideline will quietly change under us. Six shifts, plus a word on AI, each finished with a short "Dr Regu's Take." Meant to be read with a coffee in ten minutes.
The incretin era stopped being about weight — oral GLP-1s have arrived, and incretins are quietly becoming whole-body cardiometabolic drugs.
Read the full briefing →Alzheimer's becomes something you can act on — modest disease-modifying drugs, plus a blood test moving diagnosis upstream.
Read the full briefing →Lp(a): the inherited cardiovascular risk we can finally treat.
Read the full briefing →Personalised mRNA cancer vaccines grow up.
Read the full briefing →CRISPR goes bespoke — gene editing and n-of-1 medicine move closer to the clinic.
Read the full briefing →AI arrives in general practice — first a scribe, then a second opinion.
Read the full briefing →The local changes that reach your room — the $25 PBS co-payment cap, Therapeutic Guidelines going "living," MyMedicare and workforce reform, pharmacist prescribing, and why prevention still beats every policy.
Read the full briefing →Free to read and download — no sign-up needed.
I'm a UK-trained GP with 11 years in general practice, now practising in Frankston, Victoria. Over the years I've found that keeping up with medicine has got harder, not easier — every week brings new drugs, new guidelines and new headlines. Some genuinely change how we practise. Many don't.
The point of this library is simple: to separate the signal from the noise. Whether you're a GP, a registrar, a student or a patient, my aim is information that's useful in the real world — not just impressive on a conference slide.
Dr Regu's TakeGood medicine isn't about knowing everything. It's about knowing what matters most to the patient sitting in front of you.
No press-release noise — just the shifts a patient will ask about or a guideline will quietly change under us, each with a short Dr Regu's Take.
For GPs, registrars, students and curious patients · unsubscribe at any time. Reading the Briefing will always be free, sign-up or not.
A curated set from across the library — each with a full web page below, plus the original PDF. The rest of the library is one click away in the full index.
Every sheet in the library fits one of three layers. Browse the full index, or jump straight to a layer.
Eligibility criteria, authority codes, drug comparisons and the combinations that are and aren't subsidised.
15 sheets Clinical PathwayGP-facing decision aids for diagnosis, treatment escalation, monitoring and when to refer.
49 sheets Patient GuidePlain-English explainers for patients — what it could be, what helps, and when to see a GP.
22 topicsAll twenty-two topics, written for the person in the waiting room — not the textbook.
These sheets aren't a commercial product — they're the reference set I use day to day at Young Street Medical & Dental Centre, kept current and shared in case they're useful in yours. Each sheet carries its own review date in the footer; if something looks out of date, check the primary source linked on that sheet.
No newsletter required to browse. Patient guides download instantly; clinician sheets ask for a quick email first.
