Real case: The day my patient got a lucky break
It was just after Christmas: our clinic was opening the week between Christmas and New Year on reduced hours and I had volunteered to work.…
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Real case: Sometimes even God needs a doctor’s intervention
A CABG patient returns from 'the Big Smoke' with far more than a chest scar, writes Professor Max Kamien.
Real case: A GP’s tale of why he always trusts his intuition
I had no idea what was wrong with my new patient, but my 'gut feeling' was that he was too ill to just rest it off at home, writes Dr Nicholas St…
Real case: When a husband preferred his wife to be ‘a little bit mad’
My patient with schizophrenia had made remarkable improvement. Then, she went backwards. As I thought it over, the penny dropped, writes Dr Craig L…
