Hi Laurie,
Suggest you send this snippet to the backpage of GP mag and get a
£25.00 book token! Nice one.
Paul Bromley
On 29/11/2007, Laurie Slater <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 75 year old stoic, known IHD and hypertension on calcium channel blocker.
> Mild ankle oedema presumed secondary to this and no clinical cardiac failure
> or anaemia. Was told by an old lady at home (in Bulgaria) to "beat his feet
> and ankles with stinging nettles three times a day" which, being a no
> nonsense sort of bloke he duly did for a whole week. So today in a rather
> pythonesque consultation he hoiked up his trousers and with an uncanny
> Palin-like smile he pointed shamelessly at his shapely ankles "Look doc -
> all gone!"
>
> These sort of stories make it all worthwhile, because already I can think of
> one or two patients who don't yet have ankle swelling but to whom I might
> recommend this as an option ... just in case.
>
> Laurie
>
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Best Wishes
Paul Bromley
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