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View This Issue As A WINTER 2016 SUMMONS AN PUBLICATION FOR MEMBERS • Medicine on the edge • Sepsis alert • Unfit to drive • CONTENTS THE problem of protocols are key to reducing the cognitive overload that comes increasing demand at a with high-stress emergency situations. time of constrained Medical innovation and scientific advances are discussed in a FROM THE EDITOR resources will be familiar different context by Deborah Bowman on page 9, highlighting to everyone working within the NHS. New approaches aimed at the ethical importance of interpretation by clinicians when tackling this are welcome, and in this issue, Professor Jason applying new discoveries to patient care. On page 8, Alan Frame Leitch, the Scottish Government’s national clinical director, discusses health literacy and its importance in shared decision discusses his role in planning greater integration between health making and informed consent. and social care, and more patient-centred care (p. 10). Douglas Hamilton discusses the challenges faced by dentists Sepsis is a relatively common, life-threatening condition in adhering to good practice when prescribing antibiotics (p. 18). affecting 150,000 people per year in the UK, resulting in Doctors accustomed to acting as patient advocates may find 44,000 deaths. On page 16, Dr Ron Daniels, chief executive of themselves in the uncomfortable position of having to act the UK Sepsis Trust, highlights recent NICE guidelines aimed at against a patient’s wishes and breach confidentiality if someone reducing misdiagnosis and delays in treatment. deemed medically unfit refuses to stop driving. GMC guidance On page 14, Jim Killgore talks to consultant Dr Stephen on reporting concerns to the DVLA is reviewed on page 12. Hearns about his innovative and at times dramatic work with the Scottish Emergency Medical Retrieval Service (EMRS). Rigid Dr Barry Parker AN INTEGRATED APPROACH RESISTANCE IS FUTILE 10 New MDDUS Board member 18 Doug Hamilton considers Professor Jason Leitch talks to the dilemma faced by dentists in Summons about ongoing reform in prescribing antibiotic treatment Scottish public health and his role UNFIT TO DRIVE REGULARS 12 Barry Parker looks at the 4 Notice Board factors to consider when a medical 6 News Digest condition may compromise a 8 Risk: Health literacy 14 patient’s fitness to drive on the information superhighway MEDICINE ON THE EDGE 9 Ethics: Ethics as interpretation 14 Stephen Hearns discusses 20 Case studies: Pressure to cognitive overload and other prescribe, No prophylactic antibiotics, challenges with the Scottish EMRS Abdominal lump 22 Addenda: Object obscura: Goa CLINICAL RISK REDUCTION: stone, Book choice: Being Mortal: 16 SEPSIS ALERT Illness, Medicine and What Matters Dr Ron Daniels of the UK Sepsis in the End, Crossword and Vignette Trust highlights the importance of – Frank Pantridge, cardiologist and improved diagnosis and management inventor of the portable defibrillator 10 in this oft-missed condition Cover image: Winter Editor: Please address Design and production: Tree, Mary Paton. 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