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Communication

We publish case reports as an aid to MPS members, to alert them to pitfalls that have caught their colleagues unawares. We believe that these are an invaluable risk-management tool and, as such, they should be rooted in fact – i.e. based on actual events.

Here are some recent cases involving problems with communication, published in recent editions of  Casebook.

  • A pain in the neck - May 2012
  • A normal appendix - May 2012
  • A dangerous cough - May 2012
  • Right level, wrong site - September 2011
  • Treating asthma over the phone - September 2010
  • Filed and forgotten - September 2010
  • Wrongly reassured - January 2010
  • Difficulty getting through - September 2009
  • Act on your observations - May 2009
  • The danger of the casual aside - May 2008
  • We don't talk anymore - May 2008
  • Fatal communication failure - September 2008
  • A nose for trouble - May 2007
  • Getting order in systems - May 2007
  • A call for help - May 2007
  • Heading for a fall - May 2007
  • A testing case - January 2007
  • Healthy advice or harassment? - September 2006
  • Spinal surgery results in quadriplegia - May 2006
  • Omitted thromboprophylaxis - August 2004

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