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Clinical Opal - A child with a rash
Your next patient is Frankie, a 5 year old girl, who is brought in by her mother Nora. Frankie has been unwell for the past 48 hours with fever, sore throat and headache. The previous day Nora noticed a rash over Frankie’s neck and chest which has since spread over the rest of her body.
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Amanda is a 26 year old speech pathologist who presents to you with longstanding gastrointestinal symptoms.
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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.
When most people hear the word “dementia”, the first thing they think of is “memory loss”. And while dementia does cause memory loss, it is so much more than a memory problem.
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.
We’re all used to the flurry of questions that come after we start people on a new medication. When it comes to blood pressure medication and the question ‘should I take it in the morning or before bed?’. What does the evidence say?
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...