Urgent Bite 254 – The Patient Agenda
Do you establish the patient agenda at each consultation?
Urgent Bite 253 – UCL elbow injuries and Tommy John
An eponym named after the patient.
BMJ Best Practice
BMJ Best Practice is a website that collates best practice evidence relating to all aspects of clinical practice. It has a variety of different resources and tools to help your clinical practice, including a comorbidities manager, differential diagnoses algorithms, patient leaflets and much more. It is an extremely useful site to aid in your management…
DPD update March 2025
For this month’s newsletter, I wish to impress upon you all the following requirement of the recertification programme. Your annual recertification requires you to keep and maintain a Professional Development Plan (PDP). Your PDP is a personal document, and you may design and keep this in any way that you choose. The College does provide…
Urgent Bite 252 – Considering Barbers
What conditions should we consider in hair professionals?
Urgent Bite 251 – Bitot’s Spots
Seeing Bitot’s spots is pathognomic of vitamin A deficiency.
Urgent Bite 250 – Swiss Cheese and Professor Reason
Professor James Reason was the originator of the Swiss Cheese model which has been an important model in developing ways to improve patient safety and reduce adverse events in healthcare.
Urgent Bite 249 – Sentinel headaches and SAH
What is a sentinel headache before a SAH and could they help us pick up earlier on a diagnosis in urgent care?
Urgent Bite 248 – Grommet extrusion time
How long do grommets take to fall out?
Urgent Bite 247 – The Vertebral Artery Dissection
You might think that neck pain after minor trauma is probably a musculoskeletal injury. But do not forget to consider vertebral artery dissection.