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Accident & Emergency

·        Failure to diagnose fractures, especially scaphoid (wrist) and neck of femur (hip)

·        Failure to diagnose dislocations, especially shoulder

·        Failure to diagnose tendon and nerve damage, especially in the hand and wrist from
       lacerations (cuts) and the Achilles tendon (ankle)

·        Mismanagement of spinal injuries

·        Failure to diagnose and manage neurological or vascular complications of fractures and
       dislocations

·        Failure to diagnose and remove glass foreign bodies, and foreign bodies in the eye,
       especially metal

·        Mismanagement of the patient with a head injury

·        Mismanagement of the patient with abdominal pain

·        Failure to follow standard guidelines of resuscitation

·        Failure to diagnose unstable angina or cardiac arrest

·        Failure to diagnose hypoglycaemia

·        Failure to diagnose pulmonary embolism

·        Failure to diagnose brain haemorrhages

·        Failure to diagnose the early signs of serious illness in children


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