Case Study: Mercury fears
...The patient is convinced that this has been caused by ingesting mercury from the amalgam filling and exacerbated by the treatment to adjust the “poor occlusion”...
Case Study: Consent to treat
...Dr L is concerned that Mrs P does not appear to have capacity to give informed consent for the necessary treatment...
Case study: Nerve injury
...Mr J returns to Dr N over a week later complaining of numbness in his lip and tongue...
Nerve injury
...Mr J returns to Dr N over a week later complaining of numbness in his lip and tongue...
Colleague intervention
...Dr P is accused of being abusive, insulting, ill-tempered and unprofessional. Dr B is specifically criticised for failing to intervene...
Case study - Colleague intervention
...The patient accuses the specialty trainee of failing to "challenge or correct" the consultant during the consultation...
Case study - Expert evidence
...The patient alleges that Dr A's delay in making a referral allowed the tumour to progress from stage 1 to stage 2 but the expert disagrees...
Case study - Unseen complication
...It is alleged that the use of thermal energy during the prostate surgery was unsafe and caused a rectal injury...
Unstable implant
...Mr W demands he be refunded for the cost of his implant which he says is unstable and has required repeated tightening...
Dizzy episodes
...Immediate surgery around the time of the first consultation would not have made a difference to Mr K’s long-term prognosis, as (on the balance of probabilities) the tumour would still not have been completely resected given its diffuse nature...