Dr Colin Rayner

24/06/2025

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08/06/2025

02/06/2025

Anyone who is looking for a very caring and friendly and supportive Christian Church family … I can strongly recommend Sozo Church.
You will feel ‘at home’ immediately and you will find that here is a small ‘start up’ group looking to expand, and help and become meaningful in the community.
What a diverse group !! from newborn to 80 years old
Families, a young kids group, a teenage group, a men’s group, a women’s group, individuals, couples, Aussies, Japanese, Korean, African and beyond
Great free BBQ’s every few weeks ; free coffee and snacks and a chat with friendly ‘real’ everyday people from all walks of life every Sunday
You are soooo welcome to ‘give it a go’
I personally recommend this church group and I am a regular Sunday attendee
You can talk about anything and everything
Lots of joyful singing and pastor Josh always has a message that is so pertinent to today’s hectic life and great guidance as to how Jesus Christ can uplift your purpose in life ; what’s important ; and how to cope with problems ; be they personal, health, financial, family or mental health. This church group is rapidly striving to make a difference in the community and spread the word of God to all who my be ‘lost’ or looking for a saviour in Jesus Christ

New teaching series starting this Sunday ー"Being Human - The Genesis Story of Work, Rest & The Art of Being Human"SUNDAYS 9:30a at 1/20 Indy Ct, Carrara

19/01/2025

This was a proven 20mm invasive SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA of the Right lower lip, with deep infiltration to muscle depth! What I thought would be absolutely ‘nightmare’ surgery, turned out to be
‘a walk in the park’!!! Everything worked out to perfection. Histopathology report stated that the cancer was fully and adequately excised. And the healing process was fantastic. 3 weeks later, no one could tell that the patient had ever had any surgery to his lip. This was an extremely successful result.

19/01/2025

This was a 10 out of 10 surgical presentation. The patient was referred to me to have a routine ‘blood-wart’ (haemangioma) removed. It was very similar to the one in the first picture but was not position on the dorsal (upper, outer) wrist ; but on the ventral (lower, inner) wrist. There was not a lot of suspicion regarding this lesion, as it had been there for about 10 years. But in hindsight, it had recently become irritated and instead of being red or purple, it was a deep purple (🎸🥁🎶) almost black. So pretty unexpectedly the histopathology from the shave biopsy and diathermy came back as a Clark level 3 malignant melanoma. So, the next step was a formal wide re-excision of this malignant melanoma.
But as shown in picture 2, the giant radial artery (where the nurse takes your pulse) was just below the biopsy wound and the wide re-excision would include the extremely important median nerve.
So this involved hair-raising blunt dissection, constantly feeling for the pulsation of the radial artery and very careful avoidance of the median nerve.
Eventually the job was done and the outcome was 100% perfect

19/01/2025

This is a relative common (in my skin cancer clinic) non-healing ‘sore’ for 3 to 6 months. Typically the patient comes to see the doctor, not for a suspected skin cancer (that is the last thing on their mind) but because “doctor I am getting blood on my pillow sheets!!!”
This was in fact a large invasive BASAL CELL CARCINOMA. No need for a biopsy as the diagnosis is dead obvious. With a good deep and wide excision, the problem in this case was complete cured.

19/01/2025

New ‘slip-on’ shoes with no heel support caused significant plantar skin thickening, with deep cracking and splitting of the heel skin and immense pain and suffering!!! Successful shaving back of the thick, hard skin to the split/crack level, resulted in immediate relief 😅 🤍🤣

15/09/2024

Here I am going to talk about THE GREAT PRETENDER!
So on the LEFT is what is known as a RINGWORM
There is actually NO ring 💍 and NO worm 🐛
The name was given to this common skin condition hundreds of years ago when the cause was unknown. So the name was merely descriptive. More recently (in the last century) it was discovered to be caused by a localised fungal infection. Certainly in the last 50 years, it has been, and still is, treated by an uncomplicated anti-fungal cream.
So I asked the patient who had a skin condition similar to the one on the RIGHT … what do you think that is on your skin? The immediate reply was “it’s a RESISTANT RINGWORM!”
So I said … how do you know it’s resistant?
So doctors A said it was a ringworm and gave me special cream that didn’t work!
So doctor B gave me extra special extra strong cream that didn’t work!
So the dermatologist gave me strong oral anti-fungal tablets that also didn’t work!
So I was told it was a resistant ringworm
THE FINAL OFFICIAL DIAGNOSIS
On formal excision (not easy, because it was 40mm in diameter) it was reported by the histopathologist to be a form of SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA!!!
This was THE GREAT PRETENDER!!!

15/09/2024

Left earlobe ‘stretcher’ repair part 3

15/09/2024

Left earlobe ‘stretcher’ repair part 2

15/09/2024