Book choice: The Butchering Art
Book review by Dr Greg Dollman
Research ready
HAS your practice ever considered getting involved in primary care research? GP David Shukla offers a personal perspective on the benefits
Dilemma: A friend in need?
Dilemma: a doctor is pressured by a friend to prescribe a controlled drug while on holiday
New admissions
Adam Campbell chats with neurosurgeon and bestselling author Henry Marsh
Briefing: Update on state-backed indemnity
MDDUS CEO Chris Kenny offers an update and current perspective on plans for state-backed indemnity - and calls on Government to put more "meat on the bones"
Ethics: “Even nurses are not compassionate anymore…”
ETHICAL concerns can differ among professions and 'interprofessional ethics' demands both humility and “moral imagination” to understand the perspectives of other colleagues
Inherent risks in remote consulting
Online consulting offers real promise as a means of easing pressure on hard-pressed primary care services - but there are some inherent risks.
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...
Mobile implant
...The claim alleges failure to properly assess the ridge profile and need for significant bone grafting to ensure implant success...