Majority of symptomatic Covid-19 patients still infectious after five days
TWO-THIRDS of symptomatic Covid-19 patients are still infectious five days after their symptoms begin, according to the first “real-world” study into the disease onset.
Tackling backlog in bowel screening
A BACKLOG of patients waiting for colonoscopies as part of the NHS bowel screening programme could be tackled by raising the threshold at which patients are invited for more in-depth investigations, according to new research.
GMC investigations
Our guide for medical members about GMC investigations.
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)
Notice of Annual General Meeting
Notice is hereby given of the one hundred and nineteenth Annual General Meeting of The Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland
Survey reveals NHS dentistry at “tipping point”
A BBC survey has found that 90 per cent of NHS dental practices are not accepting new adult dental patients, and 80 per cent are not taking on children.
GDC fitness to practise report reveals ethnic disparity
A DISPROPORTIONATELY high number of fitness to practise concerns received by the General Dental Council (GDC) in 2021 were raised against Asian or Asian British dentists compared to their proportion of the total register.
Book choice: Hybrid Humans - Dispatches from the frontiers of man and machine
Book review of Hybrid Humans - Dispatches from the frontiers of man and machine
Vignette: John T Shepherd (1919-2011)
Leading figure in cardiovascular physiology.
Dilemma: Off label request
A patient has asked me to prescribe a drug that I'm not familiar with and is not licensed for use in their condition. What should I do?