The Medicine: Has COVID changed the doctor-patient relationship forev...
The Medicine: Has COVID changed the doctor-patient relationship forever? [Video recording]
Speaking at Risky Business 2020 Dr Pallavi Bradshaw highlights how disruption caused by COVID could affect medicolegal risk and what steps could be taken to reduce this. Increases awareness that there remain many unresolved legal and ethical issues which society must grapple with in the aftermath of the crisis.
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Surviving Medical School: Avoiding plagiarism
The GMC expects medical students to be honest and trustworthy, and to act with integrity, and this equally applies to academic work.
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Fifteen years of urinary tract infections – what’s the cause?
Forgotten blood test results: forgotten patient
Misplaced blood test results lead to a claim after a baby is left requiring a liver transplant.
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A routine referral?
When a routine optician appointment identifies papilloedema, Mrs T makes a claim against her GP for not giving her an earlier urgent referral.
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A retained swab
Basic safety checks were overlooked in this incident, which saw a claim against a consultant gynaecologist.
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A missed diagnosis of pneumonia?
The quality record-keeping of a GP member is key to the defence of this claim.
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Follow the leader
Dr Leila Touil and Dr Yasmin Ahmed-Little call all junior doctors to rise to the leadership challenge. Here they show you how.
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Accidental anaesthetic awareness
A patient makes a claim against an anaesthetist member following intra-operative accidental awareness, which she alleged resulted in psychiatric injury.
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Presumed consent for organ donation: what’s changing where?
In a recent Medical Protection survey almost a third of doctors questioned were not comfortable discussing organ donation with a patient. With different laws across the UK and further changes imminent, this is maybe not surprising
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Dealing with patients who want to self-discharge
Medical Protection’s Medicolegal Adviser Dr Clare Redmond discusses how to manage a situation where a patient asks to be discharged
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Specialties in the spotlight: anaesthetics
Dr Aidan O’Donnell discusses his experiences of working in anaesthetics.
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How to work in psychiatry
Behind misunderstandings and stigma attached to psychiatry, there is a fascinating and rewarding career to be found, write Dr Liz Ewins and Dr Dan Hodgson.
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Accidental anaesthetic awareness
A patient makes a claim against an anaesthetist member following intra-operative accidental awareness, which she alleged resulted in psychiatric injury.
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Surviving your foundation years
Being a paediatrician
Dr Michele Afif, Medicolegal Adviser at Medical Protection, reflects on her experiences of working in paediatrics
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An uncollected prescription
An elderly patient dies after his prescription goes uncollected. Who is at fault – the GP or the patient’s care home? Medical Protection assisted a member at the resulting inquest.
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Treating asthma over the phone
Dr T’s deskilling in resuscitation leads to a patient death and a claim.
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