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Probing alcohol use poses ethical dilemmas for doctors

Assessing alcohol intake in patients is an essential element in clinical history taking and examination but it can also bring potential ethical dilemmas for doctors, says UK-wide medical defence organisation MDDUS.

• 23 January 2013
• Press release

Doctors to use common sense for home visits in the snow

Doctors are advised to adopt a common-sense approach to home visits during the current severe winter weather.

• 22 January 2013
• Press release

If It’s not in the records, then it didn't happen

Keeping clear, accurate and contemporaneous dental records is key to dentists staying out of professional difficulties, advises UK-wide dental defence organisation MDDUS.

• 16 January 2013
• Press release