Integrated Medical Education Resources: B.) WORKSHOP DISCUSSION CASES

CASE GROUP #16: (DOCTOR-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP)

Case #58: A specialist physician made a phone prescription of an alpha blocker for his uncle after listening to his symptoms but had never examined him before. The uncle being a pharmacist went on to fulfill the prescription.

Case #59: a medical officer at a social dinner advised his regular patient to double the dose of the drug he had prescribed because the patient complained of lack of improvement.

Case #60: a specialist made an internal examination of the matron without a chaperone urging that she did not want the young nurses to see her awrat.