United Kingdom
General practice
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 general practice cases published in recent editions of Casebook.
- A 20-year-old mistake - January 2010
- Age no barrier - January 2010
- Wrongly reassured - January 2010
- A takeaway lesson - January 2010
- Rare and serious complications - January 2010
- Difficulty getting through - September 2009
- Don’t be blind to red flags - September 2009
- Too little, too late - September 2009
- A long-lasting earache - September 2009
- Dysphasia – dysuria – disaster - September 2009
- Too late for contraception - May 2009
- "One last thing..." - May 2009
- Not on sound footing - May 2009
- A zebra amongst the horses - September 2008
- The danger of the casual aside - May 2008
- Reconsidering chest pain - May 2008
- Sudden, first and worst, again - May 2008
- Taking your breath away - May 2008
- Sudden, first and worst - January 2008
- Hard to stomach - January 2008
- One prescription after another - January 2008
- Cooking up trouble - September 2007
- Troublesome chest pain - September 2007
- A missed opportunity - September 2007
- Bitter pill - September 2007
- The not-so-unlikely diagnosis - September 2007
- A limping child - May 2007
- Double check before you double jab - May 2007
- A call for help - May 2007
- See and be safe - May 2007
- A testing case - January 2007
- Back again with cauda equina syndrome - January 2007
- Concerning symptoms - January 2007
- Getting to the heart of the matter - January 2007
- Heading for trouble - January 2007
- GP cases before 2007