‘My spidey senses tingled’: the terror of the needle in a haystack diagnosis

Dr Meryl Broughton
Dr Meryl Broughton.

One of the many terrors of general practice is the fear of missing a needle in a haystack.

How do we find the potentially harmful thing among the ordinary farm fodder?

Rare tumours are, well, rare. But if you toss them all into the one category, they disturbingly outnumber more common neoplasms.

Like detectives, we conduct our search methodically and follow the leads as they arise.