In the medical profession, receiving a request for medical management from a colleague is a routine experience. However, when the colleague is a family member of a patient and the desired or requested medical intervention is not medically indicated in the attending physician's view, the situation becomes more complicated. Ethical issues include respect for patient autonomy and social justice as...

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3. A 23 year old soldier attends your surgery with a colleague. That morning he had been watching television when he had suffered an episode of collapse with loss of consciousness and he is unable to recall anything else until he remembers coming around lying on the floor. His colleague, who witnessed the episode, describes what sounds like a generalised tonic-clonic convulsion. There was no pr...

Through the courtesy of a colleague, it has been possible to examine some 240 samples of Bristol milk collected under good conditions.

Our loyal friend and colleague, Jan van der Noordaa, passed away unexpectedly at the age of 80 on the evening of 17 June 2015. [...].