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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...
Transgender records
...The practice is advised to explain that the patient may not be contacted for current or future screening programmes associated with the sex at birth and explain the implications of this...
Recurrent cancer
...The patient confirms that he has noticed a dip in energy and also that he has dropped a few pounds in weight. He is also still finding blood in his stools...
Surgical infection
...Mr K later re-attends the district nurse and she phones Dr R to report that the knee is now hot and swollen and the sutures have burst in two places – but the patient is weight-bearing...