Dr Gillian Riley

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  • diabetes week

    its national diabetes week! A week when your local health professional comes into their social media to talk to you very seriously about diabetes. So here I am, like a good stereotype. jokes aside though, diabetes is pretty common – affecting about 2 million Australians. Also it can have some pretty gnarly outcomes if we…

  • what is weight neutral care?

    What is weight neutral or HAES aligned care? You might have heard of health at every size (HAES) care before.  It’s a mainly American movement, which arose out of the civil rights movement, which framed healthcare as a human right and access to health does not rely on – weight, weight loss or health status itself.  …

  • I have news!

    I have news! For those of you with short attention spans and/or who forgot your meds this morning (ngl I totally did) here is the executive summary. For the rest of you — strap in this is probably going to be quite the ramble! 2013 was a big year for me – I finished my…

  • planning a pregnancy?

    Planning a pregnancy? Women, or people planning to be pregnant I would love to see you before you start because there’s lots of things to chat about first! It seems deceptively simple – stop your contraceptive – start trying, and, well basically – yes.  And if the first time I see you you are already pregnant…

  • wormhole

    I am a huge reader. regular patients likely know this and are likely used to me either talking to them about books I have read or suggesting books they should read. This is one of my latest – wormhole by Hannah McElhinney. This is to start really sad, and really confronting, so a word of…

  • why gunning?

    Why Gunning, I’ve been asked? Well at the risk of embarrassing myself, here is a clipping mum and dad saved from the Goulburn Post from the 1980s. I know I have not changed a bit. Still absolutely adorable. I can take it. 🥰 Lived in Goulburn for four years, our family had a brief interlude…

  • Poo kits

    This men’s health week let’s look at bowel cancer screening! Bowel cancer is the fourth most commonly diagnosed cancer in Australia and the second deadliest. Around 15,000 Australians are diagnosed annually. That represents a lifetime risk of around 1 in 20 by the time we’re 85. Men have a slightly higher risk of diagnosis and…

  • thank you

    Utterly humbled by how many of you are making the trek from Canberra to Gunning to see me. ⁣⁣I hope to never take for granted how lucky I am to have so many wonderful patients. ⁣⁣The good news is I have signed a contract today to commence work in a new General Practice located centrally…

  • syphilis testing in pregnancy

    If you’re pregnant, or have recently been pregnant you might have noticed that you were tested for syphilis more frequently than you might have been in any previous pregnancies. This is because the incidence of syphilis infections has risen quite a bit over the last decade in Australia and this is particularly a problem if…

  • A little psa

    Hi I’m dr Gillian. And I’m here with a public service announcement to do with vaginal bleeding Yes. Sorry. We have met right? If not wellNow you know what you’ll get if we do. If we have met you’ll know that the rule in dr Gillian’s office is generally vaginal bleeding not something you have…