Dr David Greening

04/09/2025

We Fertility doctors fought for this for ages. Medicare now covers their treatments. Sometimes change is slow but it was the right thing to do.

Women without partners, or in same-sex relationships, had to pay thousands of dollars for at least two rounds of fertility procedures before they could access rebates.

04/09/2025

In 1962 I was born ( in black & white in NZ) and these interviews were happening in Australia.
Have a watch, it’s fascinating.

In 1962, the ABC asked Australians whether they thought husbands should watch the birth of their children, or if men should stay outside. By Megan Jacobson f...

03/09/2025

Pregnancy 🤰 induced nausea ( morning sickness) can sometimes become severe. I saw a number as an obstetrician. And it required a lot of management to get my patients through to delivery. Some it lasted all through.
I read the evolutionary theory is that the nausea prevented pregnant women eating meat 🥩, the highest risk of infection through history. But who knows exactly why, except to say it can be truly awful for some.
A lot of the symptoms are ketones, metabolic breakdown products from a lack of sugars and intravenous sugar solutions helps this heaps.
If you had this or suffer this affliction it needs excellent and long term management as it’s definitely not ‘a bit of morning sickness’ like most. Get help ASAP and hospital 🏥 will me needed at times but often can be as an outpatient.
David

A survey of Australian women with a condition called hyperemesis gravidarum found more than half considered terminating their pregnancy, and 90 per cent considered having no more children.

06/08/2025

The back story on this iconic saying. I have some cuff links 🔗 with this on it as I totally agree with it.
Sometimes you just have to keep calm and carry on.
And remember others also have gone through a crisis or tough time and now it’s your own turn.
Life is like the tides, come in, goes out, good times, bad times. Keep calm and the tides change🤔.

After a forgotten WW2 propaganda poster was discovered in 2000, it found an astounding new resonance in 21st-Century Britain.

31/07/2025

From a 30 year old frozen embryo.
Liquid nitrogen is minus - 196 Celsius. A freezer is - minus 18C.
The molecular structure of an embryo is almost completely stopped at 196C. So in theory they could last many many more years frozen. Thousands even.
But FYI embryos are a 100 cells or so, all the water 💦 has been withdrawn and a cryopreservant replaces it . So freezing a whole human is 150 trillion cells. A tad more difficult, sorry Walt Disney.

The embryo was created in 1994, when the adoptive father was still a toddler. A Christian "embryo adoption" agency facilitated the donation.

20/07/2025

PCOS - a potential game changer as it does work.
Have a read

Some health experts view GLP-1s as a promising option for PCOS, which lacks a standard treatment and affects millions of women in the U.S.

18/07/2025

A frosty 🥶 Bowral morning greeted me today. Minus 4c but feels like minus 6.6c
The sun ☀️ trying to break through and warm up the southern highlands.

18/07/2025

PAP smears, you can do your own! 😱
As a gynaecologist I’ve done ✅ lots but now you can go to the pharmacy and get a test yourself. Simple.
Can I say I’ve seen a number of cervical cancer cases in my career sadly but never in those who had their regular Pap smears.
The cause of the vast majority of cervical cancer is the HPV virus 🦠 Human Papilloma virus. Which is common and the vaccine 💉 at high school helps prevent but isn’t perfect.
Cos I’m a baby boomer and older we had an old saying “ an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” meaning the cost of fixing up something is way more than the small cost to prevent it. Pap smears are definitely like this.
If you’ve never had one or behind in yours read this article and if your doing the right ✅thing and up to date mention it to friends and family (quietly). 🤓 it probably not loud dinner party conversations?
Stay safe 😁
David

A pap smear or cervical screening isn’t the most exciting errand, but if you’ve been putting it off you may be in for a "completely different experience" than the last time you were tested.

17/07/2025

My first morning exercise in 5 weeks. I injured my right Achilles tendon 5 weeks ago out having a morning run 🏃‍♂️ I’d done a few slow runs then started doing a few hill repeats. Ok, going ok, but then tried a few short sprints, still ok. Push a bit more and ouch 😩 my Achilles tears a bit and reminds me I’m not on my 20s training for track 800m/1500m races anymore!
Oh well, some really good physiotherapy sessions with Andrew at the Edge physiotherapy group and good advice and it’s getting better.
So out for a walk albeit with short strides and another life lesson for the old dog ( quack) 🧐
Good to be out on the frosty morning finally.
Have a great day everyone. David

13/07/2025

Fun fact:
The female kiwi bird actually does have to stop eating for the last few days before she lays an egg, because there’s just no room for food.
Not even a bug! 🐛