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Clinical Opal - Josie has ‘difficult’ behaviour
5-year old Josie is brought in for assessment by her mother Beth because of her ‘difficult’ behaviour.
READ ONAmanda is a 26 year old speech pathologist who presents to you with longstanding gastrointestinal symptoms.
Billy is 8 weeks old, he was born NVD and is up to date with his immunisations. He has been vomiting for the last 3 weeks and is very irritable with a high pitched cry.
Patrick is a 62 year old university lecturer who presents to you with erectile dysfunction.
John is a 24-year-old male who works as a personal trainer at a local gym.
Tyler is a 22 year old university student who presents to you late one afternoon. He is new to the practice. He starts the consultation off by saying ‘It’s a bit embarrassing, doctor’, and awkwardly proceeds to describe penile discharge and painful urination for the past couple of days.
It is 3PM on a Thursday afternoon and your next patient is Dimitri, a 54 year old groundsman. Dimitri is attending for review after a recent lower leg DVT following a knee arthroscopy.
Your next patient is Belinda, a 54-year-old dressmaker and new patient to the practice. Belinda presents to you bearing a sheaf of printed material from the internet and asks for a request form for the MTHFR gene...
It is Monday morning, and you are reviewing the test results in the inbox of your colleague who has taken a week off work...
Sam was found unresponsive at a scene of a single motorcycle accident. No obvious signs of blood loss or fractures...