Summons
Summons is published quarterly and distributed to all MDDUS members throughout the UK. It provides a mix of articles on risk, medico-legal and regulatory matters as well as general features and profiles of interest to our members. Browse current and back issues to 2008. Click on individual articles or on the cover image to view the complete issue with a digital reader.
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Spring 2012
Employment law: Disciplinary matters
Q&A: Lord Justice Rupert Jackson
A humbling dedication - the return
MDDUS profile: Dentist to dentist
Clinical risk reduction: Adult chest infections
Tales of the non-accidental tourist
Winter 2012
Employment law: It was just Banter!
Ethics: Treat on need not eligibility
Q&A: Dr Sara Twaddle and Dr Keith Brown of SIGN
Clinical risk reduction: Brain tumours
Vignette: John James Rickard Macleod
Autumn 2011
Mutual aims, mutual protection
Clinical risk reduction: Acute febrile illness in children
Dental audit: How's your record keeping?
Summer 2011
Employment law: Switching roles?
Ethics: Does familiarity breed consent?
Clinical risk reduction: Need to know
Dental health: At the root of the problem
Spring 2011
Law at Work: Forget the carriage clock
Ethics: Don't mention the 'P' word
Clinical risk reduction: Haematuria
Domestic abuse: Make it your business
Winter 2011
Law at Work: Harassment by patients
Ethics: Expertise and experience
Broadening horizons - BMDST At 50
Clinical risk reduction: Wrong-site surgery
Dental sedation in learning disabled adults
Autumn 2010
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Law at Work: Be wary of job drift
Ethics: Private lives, public debate
Q&A: Professor Sir Peter Rubin
Doctors in sport: Risk management
Clinical risk reduction: Head injuries
Making a SEA change - clinical audit
Vignette: Sir Cyril Astley Clarke
Summer 2010
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Q&A: Dr Stephen Hearns of EMRS
Speaking from the heart: Patient Voices project
Clinical risk reduction: Chest pain
A job worth doing: Clinical audit
Spring 2010
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Law at Work: It's not in my contract
Medico-legal: Is there a lawyer in the house?
Humanising the space: Art in Healthcare
Clinical risk reduction: Asthma
Cometh the heavy metal generation
Vignette: Dr Robert Michael Maher
Winter 2010
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Law at Work: How were your holidays?
Risk: 10 Tactics to reduce risk
Being there: MDDUS member survey
Trusting the experts - testimony
Clinical risk reduction: Common gynaecological cancers
Take care with Bisphosphonates
Autumn 2009
Law at Work: Someone may be watching
Doctor to doctor: The Royal Medical Benovolent Fund
Clinical risk reduction: Charcot foot
Fear factor: Dealing with dental phobia
Vignette: Professor Bernard Isaacs
Summer 2009
Q&A: Ian Jackson, GDC Director, Scotland
Dignity long denied - medico-legal history
Clinical risk reduction: Subarachnoid haemorrhage
Right to choose: GMC on personal beliefs
Spring 2009
Law at Work: Last in, last out?
Risk: Is there a doctor onboard?
Ethics: Musings on a the moral life
Mutual interest: Benefits of mutuality
Clinical risk reduction: Cervical spine trauma
Skill development: Communication
First person: humbling dedication
Vignette: Dame Sheila Sherlock
Winter 2009
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Law at Work: Keeping the 'event' happy
Doctor-Patient: Going that extra mile
Ethics: Life and death, mince and tatties
Restoring authority: Expert wintnesses
Clinical risk reduction: Colorectal cancer
Someone to watch over me - dental chaperones
Autumn 2008
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Law at Work: It's who you know
Employment law: A Pyrrhic victory
Ethics: Real life, real questions
Clinical risk reduction: Pulmonary thromboembolism
You've been warned: GMC warnings
Summer 2008
Law at Work: Here's looking at you
Clinical risk reduction: Cauda equina syndrome
Focus on standards: Implant dentistry
Infective endocarditis: NICE guidance for dentists
Gray's Anatomy marks 150 years
Spring 2008
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Law at Work: Is that your face?
Probity: Just a minute of your time
Medical defence... American style
Mind your business: GDC guidance
Clinical risk reduction: Slipped upper femoral epiphysis
Profile: Forensic anthropologist, Professor Sue Black
Vignette: Oral surgeon William MacLennan
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