Common sense approach to home visits in poor weather
A number of GPs have been calling MDDUS for advice about their obligations to visit patients in the current adverse weather conditions. Doctors must make every reasonable effort to undertake home visits to ill patients but should avoid creating further problems by becoming snowbound or having an accident while travelling.
A necessary visit? - medical case study
...Dr A diagnoses gastroenteritis and a possible chest infection and prescribes an antibiotic and anti-sickness medication. But just a few hours later, Mrs B dies...
Caution urged over patient gifts
CHRISTMAS is fast approaching and your patients might take the opportunity to offer a gift - but could accepting it compromise your professional judgement?
What did you call yourself? - dental case study
... The dentist doesn't notice that his website designers describe him as a specialist in implantology on his new site. It's not long until a fellow dentist reports him to the GDC, claiming he is misleading the public ...
Student work placements
BUDDING doctors and dentists rely on work experience to get a foot on the career ladder - but these placements are not risk-free.
Screening not 100 per cent - medical case study
...The three-year-old seemed flat-footed but within weeks he was limping. It was only when he was scanned six months later that the real problem is discovered ...
Equal under the law
BIG changes are looming in the world of equality legislation that will have an impact on employment practices.
Conflicting scenarios
...on returning to the surgery the pain in his abdomen was so agonising he could "barely walk" and it had also moved from the epigastric area to "just below the right side of my stomach"...