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Imagine this scenario. You turn up to work your day shift and see you have been assigned to the Obs ward for the morning. It is your task to see the dozen or so patients sleeping off the evils of the night before in the small ward out back of the ED. You know the [...]
The pain felt almost metallic in nature, which didn’t mean anything to me at the time. He had returned from Thailand with a strange rash over his flank that two other experienced GP’s at my practice could not identify when I sought their help. Just then a still small voice flashed into my consciousness about [...]
It is ladies month here still – and today we are going to get into one of the the big Emergency scenarios of Women’s health. Imagine this: Its a quiet night shift – you are contemplating a third cuppa when the triage nurse rolls in with a young woman on a wheelchair. Your powers of [...]
Ok, the Paeds month is coming to its end. But here us a common, curly clinical question. 13 yo girl presents complaining of a sore, red, smelly toe. It is stopping her from soccer practice – cant Bend it like Beckham any longer…. How do you manage this: Specifically – what do you do with [...]
Hi Listeners Dr MEl Thompson is back for a second bite of “lessons hard learned ” This case is a lot close to home, I think these types of errors / system problems occur in large multi-department hospitals all the time – you might evne have seen it recently. SO have a listen [...]
