Another fortnight of school holidays will be here shortly. I will be not be available on the Fridays of the school holidays, and another day, due to family commitments. The details are available on my schedule. My next booked holiday will be in early December,and these details will be available shortly, Dr David Dowling
About David Dowling
Doctor David Dowling is a General Practitioner, based in Capalaba, Redland City. He has worked at the Capalaba Medical Centre since 1994.
Website: http://www.dowling.net.au
David Dowling has written 23 articles so far, you can find them below.
Website update
Frequent visitors to this website may notice a slight update in formatting and information available. As this is being undertaken, I am not disabling the site since it may take some time to fully complete the minor redesign. You may notice some website errors, formatting errors, and some content errors. I will try to keep [...]
Can General Practitioners become obsolete ?
I have found an interesting article on how family doctors (aka general practitioners) are still important in supplying health care to the modern society. Although this article is written by an American doctor, the general practitioner in Australia is an important source of advice, medical treatment and a gateway to further health care, if required. [...]
2 Jun 2010 Update
It appears that our ADSL has now been restored after our ‘upgrade’, so e-mail should be back to normal Dr David Dowling
Suspension of the Seasonal Influenza Vaccine for Children Five Years and Under
This post has been sourced from the Queensland Health website – http://www.health.qld.gov.au/flu/vacc_suspension.asp . What has happened? There has been a higher than usual number of children 5 years and under experiencing fevers, vomiting and febrile convulsions following seasonal influenza vaccination, in the Western Australian seasonal influenza vaccination program. Due to this, the seasonal influenza vaccination [...]




