Patient care: The real casualty of defensive medicine

During a busy Emergency Department shift, I received a referral from a GP about a patient with pain and discharge from his ear (or otalgia and otorrhea in layman medical terms), that needed to be seen urgently in the ED. Now there are very few ENT emergencies, although they tend to be serious, so of course it piqued my interest…

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