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An angry ending
...Mr B apologises for losing his temper but Dr T is not satisfied and decides to remove him from the practice patient list...
Patient abroad
...The patient was on holiday in Spain when she phoned her GP asking about a rash on her leg...
Gut pain
...The patient expressed worry that he might have gallstones but Dr K diagnosed dyspepsia without an examination to determine the nature of the epigastric pain...
Rapid decline
... A form was drawn up mistakenly stopping all bumetanide scripts...
Problem pregnancy
...An ultrasound would have revealed an empty uterus and a suboptimal rise in serum beta HCG levels, leading to a diagnosis of ectopic pregnancy...
Hockey twist
...The surgeon expresses “surprise” that the diagnosis was missed in A&E and that there was no onward referral to an on-call orthopaedic specialist...
Incisional hernia
...seeing omental tissue evident one week after surgery would be consistent with observations (by the surgeon) of a “large area of deep breakdown” within the wound...
Slow-healing socket
...The expert questions why Ms N did not consider something more than just a slow-healing socket – especially when the adjacent molar had been extracted with normal healing...
Sudden stroke
...Later that day Mr S collapses at home and is taken by ambulance to A&E with left-side weakness and severe headache...
Swollen leg
...The GP suspects a DVT and makes arrangements to refer Ms J to the local thrombosis clinic but there is no record of a referral made that same day...