Practice management: One of my employees is pregnant – what do we both need to do?
Employment law adviser Janice Sibbald offers advice on the responsibilities of both employer and employee during pregnancy.
Dental case study: Persistent gingival swelling
...Mrs L, a smoker, presents with painful swollen gums, bleeding and swollen lymph nodes, and the dentist suspects periodontal infection...
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
Ethics: A girl I used to know - on Derry Girls and ethical development
Professor Deborah Bowman watches hit TV series Derry Girls and reflects on the way our values and ethical principles develop from childhood to adulthood.
Vignette: John T Shepherd (1919-2011)
Leading figure in cardiovascular physiology.
Professional pitfalls in social media use
Risk adviser Kay Louise Grant highlights the importance of being aware of professional expectations on how we behave online.
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.
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