Send him to A&E or Walk-In Centre or OOH doctors to arrange urgent FBC. The risk
is too great to leave until Monday morning, both for the patient and
medicolegally. The likelihood of this being *just* a sore throat, of course, is
very high.
Laurie Miles
> -----Original Message-----
> From: GP-UK [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jeff Green
> Sent: 06 March 2007 2:21 pm
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [GP-UK] Saturday Morning
>
> I was working with my (still) unregistered doctor and a third year
> pharmacy student.
> The student had just completed his clinical pharmacy exams - so it
> having been a long
> time since I was a student asked him what they where about.
> The example he gave was a setting in which he was presented with a drug
> chart showing
> carbimazole and a patient complaining of a sore throat.
>
> "OK" - I said "that's in an exam, but what happens here on a Saturday
> morning. So far your
> response to the patient with a sore throat has been "Have you tried
> Strepsils?"
> Assuming that you'd asked some questions and discovered that the patient
> was taking
> carbimazole what would your advice have been?"
>
> "To stop taking the carbimazole and see a GP Monday morning." answered
> the student.
>
> My doctor disagreed.
>
> So over to you for your opinions please.
>
> TIA
>
> Jeff
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