Continuing our series on clinical scenarios that can be mishandled in primary care, Dr Claire Davies considers a finding of abnormal red blood cells Dr Morse is filing his blood results on Mrs Rahman when he notices an FBC that was requested by the locum doctor.

20 May 2022

Dr Toni Hazell outlines how to advise a patient with an incidental finding of Candida, and why a prescription is not always necessary A 25-year-old woman presents with intermenstrual bleeding.

04 March 2022

Continuing our series on clinical scenarios that can be mishandled in primary care, Dr Peter Bagshaw looks at the potential for misdiagnosing hallucinations in the elderly An 87-year-old woman with failing hearing, sight and memory has started seeing things, according to her care home staff.

03 February 2022

Picking up on our series of scenarios that are commonly mishandled in primary care, Dr Peter Bagshaw looks at how to avoid being misled by an incidental finding of gallstones The scenarioA 42-year-old man presents with vague upper abdominal pain.

19 January 2022

Kicking off this new series on scenarios that are commonly mishandled in primary care, we take a look at avoiding inappropriate prescribing for an ‘infected’ insect bite A 54-year-old man suffered an insect bite on the leg the day before yesterday.

10 October 2019

03 August 2015

Giving girls the Pill over the counter isn’t the scandal here, writes Dr Fiona Cornish, it’s the fact that GPs haven’t given pharmacists that opportunity before.

04 May 2012