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Casebook aims to promote safer practice by providing information and sharing experiences that you will find helpful. It consistently meets with high praise from Medical Protection members and frequently sparks debate and discussion within the medicolegal field.

If you have any questions or comments about this publication, please contact us at [email protected]

Past Editions

Volume 29 | Issue 1
 
Casebook
May 2021
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  • Is telemedicine here to stay? 
  • A disclosure dilemma
  • Cauda equina claim goes to trial
  • Facing handover problems
  • Complete your CPD questionnaire
Volume 28 | Issue 2
 
Casebook
November 2020
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  • COVID-19: the global experience
  • Managing unwelcome experience from a patient
  • Alleged failure to investigate chest pain
  • Delayed diagnosis of renal disease leads to a claim
Volume 28 | Issue 1
 
Casebook
May 2020
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  • Reversing the demands of an excessive negligence claim 
  • Claims from the case files
  • The impact of miscommunication
  • Reflections on clinical practice from a medicolegal consultant
Volume 27 | Issue 2
 
Casebook
November 2019
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  • The GP harassed by a patient
  • Missed case of ovarian cancer
  • Delayed diagnosis of lung cancer
  • Complete your CPD questionnaire
Volume 27 | Issue 1
 
Casebook
May 2019
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  • A missed diagnosis of pneumonia?
  • Accidental anaesthetic awareness
  • Delayed diagnosis of lung cancer
  • A routine referral
Volume 26 | Issue 2
 
Casebook
November 2018
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  • A wrong diagnosis but not criticism 
  • Initial management of an itchy skin rash
  • A cyst in time
  • Questioning your consultant
  • Nausea and weight loss - what's the cause?

Archived Editions

Volume 25 | Issue 2
 
Casebook
May 2018
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    In this issue

  • Noticeboard
  • A missed diagnosis by no negligence
  • Failure to act on lower back pain
  • Case reports
Volume 24 | Issue 2
 
Casebook November 2016
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    In this issue

  • Children and consent
  • Male circumcision and the law
  • Terminating a doctor-patient relationship
  • Challenging interactions with colleagues
  • Advertising media services
  • From the case files
  • Over to you
Volume 25 | Issue 2
 
Casebook
November 2017
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    In this issue

  • Budding expert witnesses, step this way
  • Finding common ground
  • Case reports
Volume 24 | Issue 1
 
Casebook
May 2016
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    In this issue

  • How to be...an expert witness
  • Risk alert - medication errors and safer prescribing
  • A family matter
  • How we support state doctors
  • Clinical negligence form
  • From the case files
Volume 25 | Issue 1
 
Casebook
July 2017
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    In this issue

  • Risk alert - an increase in wrongful birth claims
  • The cost of rising claims and complaints
  • Implications of completing forms and writing reports
  • Ethics For All - our annual ethics event
  • Case reports
Volume 23 | Issue 2
 
Casebook November 2015
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    In this issue

  • Challenging the cost of clinical negligence
  • Is doctor-assisted suicide now legal in South Africa?
  • Suspected child abuse: a doctor's obligations
  • Over to you
  • Reviews