Insight Dental Q1 2023
In this issue:
- Advice: A friendly favour, or fraud?
- Pitfalls: Managing risks in oral surgery
- Practice management: Managing poor performance
- Call log
- Professional development: Being a generalist in a specialised world
- Burnout risks patient safety
- Case file: Chemical burn
- Case file: Root in situ
- Case file: Infective endocarditis risk
- Probity – the hidden pitfalls
- Feature: The surprising history of medical defence
- Ethics: Hard choices – on difficult decisions
- Viewpoint: A place of acceptance
- Vignette: Jane Elizabeth Waterston (1843-1932)
Feature: The surprising history of medical defence
Allan Gaw recounts how increasing litigation in the late Victorian era led to the establishment of mutual medical defence.
Case file: Wrong email attachment
...Ms J sends a formal letter of complaint expressing her distress at having personal and private information mistakenly disclosed...
Best practice: Are you delegating safely?
Clinicians can delegate responsibility for a task but not accountability.
Going hungry on shift
An MDDUS survey uncovers how a lack of adequate food for junior doctors at work is putting patient safety at risk
A quarter of junior doctors are victims of race hate at work
A quarter of junior doctors have been victims of race hate at work, with the majority abused by their patients, an MDDUS survey has uncovered.
NICE advises staged withdrawal of antidepressants
NICE has published draft guidance advising that adult patients with depression who want to stop taking antidepressants should have their dose reduced in stages to avoid severe withdrawal symptoms.
Risk: Burnout risks patient safety
The rising incidence and severity of reported burnout among NHS staff is not just a wellbeing issue.
Mental health: Support in a time of crisis
A free service that recognises an essential duty to care for the mental health and wellbeing of healthcare professionals.
MDDUS call to members - send us your photos
MDDUS is asking members to share photos of where they live so we can share them on our social media.