Day Four

A series of tricky tasks today.

1) Try to get a madwife to understand the concept of haemodilution in pregnancy, as you receive yet another inappropriate request for a prescription for Iron tablets.

As an extra piece of work, and there are big bonus points here, write a short discussion paper about how it can be, that Midwives, who are "practitioners in their own right", and have taken away all the antenatal care that GPs used to provide, still ring us back up again as soon as the slightest problem arises. And if they're so suitable for taking sole charge of the whole antenatal show, WTF can't they be trusted to write their own bleedin' prescriptions for iron....a product that a patient can buy from the Pharmacy.

2) See if you can get Rapid Response to respond.

3) Find the on-call Surgeon.

4) Finally explain to Mrs Panic stricken, that Kylie has not contracted Ebola Virus, and "Yes, you can be too careful"