Sudden decline
...The next day Mr P’s condition further deteriorates and his wife calls for an ambulance. He is breathless and panicky with a tight chest and tachycardia...
Slip on the ice
....It is alleged that both doctors failed to carry out an adequate examination, consider a diagnosis of hip fracture and offer an orthopaedic referral...
Missed gallstones
...Over the following six weeks he attends the practice three more times and is examined by two different GPs who also diagnose constipation...
Non-compliant diabetic
...The infected foot proves unresponsive to antibiotic therapy and six days later Mr A undergoes a below-knee amputation...
HRT error
...further investigation reveals that Mrs A has been mistakenly prescribed unopposed oestrogen HRT...
Suspect spot
...Dr L confirms that the letter had been received in the practice and marked as read but the follow-up chest X-ray had not been highlighted and actioned...
Disclosure demanded
...details are required in regard to an NMC investigation into allegations of ill-treatment of a patient registered with the practice while in a local nursing home...
Inappropriate tweets
...A colleague at the hospital where Dr T works sent the regulator photocopied examples of some of her tweets, posted under an anonymous handle and including various disparaging ‘jokes’ in regard to patients...
Unwanted chemistry
...the patient says that he had detected some “chemistry” between them during the examination and he has seen her again waiting at a bus stop but was too nervous to make an approach...
Worrying lump
...Dr J undertakes an examination and finds a "2 cm non-tender subcut lump under right axilla". She prescribes antibiotics and asks the patient to return for review...