The GP MP, the reporter and the manicure gone wrong
How Dr Phelps helped diagnose a serious infection mid-interview with a TV journalist
MP Dr Kerryn Phelps couldn’t help but put her GP hat on while being interviewed on Nine Network’s A Current Affair recently, possibly saving the reporter a manicure-induced trip to surgery.
Dr Phelps was being interviewed by A Current Affair‘s Alex Bernhardt when the GP noticed the journalist’s elbow was inflamed.
She suspected a septic bursitis and that a recent trip to a nail salon was the potential source of infection.
The GP wrote the journalist a prescription and advised her to go to hospital if the swelling remained by night time.
