‘Worrying’ number of trainee doctors face workplace discrimination, GMC survey shows
MORE than a quarter of trainee doctors have faced discrimination at work, a report by the General Medical Council has revealed.
Call for views on registration of internationally qualified dentists
A CONSULTATION on the registration of internationally qualified dentists and dental care professionals has been launched by the General Dental Council.
Insight Secondary Q3 2023
In this issue:
- Leadership: Managing change - 10 essential tactics
- Candour: Is it safe to apologise?
- Innovation: Voice in the bank
- MDDUS: “Tired. Concerned. Trying not to lose hope.” A report from the NHS frontline
- Case file: Botox remote
- Case file: Redaction request
- Case file: Infected rash
- Risk: NHS staff jumping the queue
- Catalysing civility – resolving workplace conflict
- GMC: A brush with the law
- Ethics: How should a person be?
- Viewpoint: Malpractice in the media
- Vignette: Dame Margaret Turner-Warwick (1924 – 2017)
Frontline surgery staff to get free emotional wellbeing support
The UK-wide medical defence organisation MDDUS has taken the step of extending its free and confidential support service for doctors and dentists to include the administrative staff they employ.
Insight Secondary Q3 2022
In this issue:
- Viewpoint: A lifetime perspective
- Professionalism: Pitfalls in social media use
- Advice: Recording telephone consultations with patients
- Advice: Responding to online criticism
- Innovation: Digital biomarker to help diagnose epilepsy
- Profile: Taking aim
- Feature: How the physician to the gladiators became the father of modern medicine
- Case study: Iatrogenic stroke
- Case study: Serious clinical incident statement
- Case study: Patient buying medication online
- Dilemma: Off label request
- Ethics: A girl I used to know - on Derry Girls and ethical development
- Book choice: Hybrid Humans - Dispatches from the frontiers of man and machine
- Vignette: John T Shepherd (1919-2011)
Unwanted advances
How would you deal with the difficult situation of a patient making romantic advances? Risk adviser Kay Louise Grant offers advice on maintaining boundaries with patients.
Dental case study: Fractured tuberosity
...The claim alleges that Ms R should have been given specific warnings regarding the risk of a fractured tuberosity...
Medical case study: Patient buying medication online
...Dr A is advised that she should not let Mr G coerce her into prescribing medication that she does not believe is appropriate or serves his needs...
Protect your personal finances with an Income Protection Plus policy
With so much uncertainty in life, it is nice to know that should you be unable to work due to illness or injury, you could still have a regular income to cover your bills and living expenses.
Steep 50-year rise in melanoma deaths among men
MELANOMA death rates among UK men have risen 219 per cent in the last 50 years, according to new analysis released by Cancer Research UK.