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Dental case study: Adverse comment

...the patient writes an online review accusing the dentist of being incompetent and rude...

  • 24 May 2022
  • Case study
  • Insight - Dental
  • Q2

Dental case study: Slow healing socket

...the socket is still very inflamed after several weeks, so the dentist prescribes more antibiotics...

  • 24 May 2022
  • Case study
  • Insight - Dental
  • Q2

Dental case study: Adverse comment

...Mr M posts a review on a local online directory commenting that Dr S is “incompetent and rude” and that he struggled to extract his tooth...

  • 29 April 2022
  • Case study

Medical case study: Back pain

...The letter claims that had Mr U been referred to hospital he would have undergone an MRI scan which would have identified a paracentral disc protrusion compressing the cauda equina...

  • 29 April 2022
  • Case study

Medical case study: Friendly care

...the GMC writes to Ms S informing her that concerns have been raised over her fitness to practise in connection with prescriptions supplied to a friend...

  • 22 April 2022
  • Case study
  • Insight - Secondary
  • Q2

Medical case study: Post-op tooth pain

...Mr K submits a letter of complaint asking if his tooth was knocked when he was being administered the general anaesthetic for his surgery...

  • 22 April 2022
  • Case study
  • Insight - Secondary
  • Q2

Medical case study: Vaccine error

...Dr M administers the vaccine but later realises he has given the patient the wrong one...

  • 22 April 2022
  • Case study
  • Insight - Secondary
  • Q2

Slow-healing socket

...An incisional biopsy one month later at the hospital confirms the lesion is squamous cell carcinoma and the patient undergoes extensive surgery followed by facial reconstruction and radiotherapy...

  • 31 March 2022
  • Case study

Long-term diazepam prescription

...Dr H prescribes the drug weekly despite complaints by Mr C that he runs out of medication by the weekend...

  • 31 March 2022
  • Case study

Case study: An inconvenient “mole”

...It is alleged that Dr J failed to consider a diagnosis of basal cell carcinoma and refer the patient for further investigations...

  • 29 March 2022
  • Case study
  • Insight - Primary
  • Q1

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