QU AR TER TWO / 2017
Editor Dr Barry Parker
Managing editor Jim Killgore
Associate editor Joanne Curran
Editorial departments Medical Dr Richard Brittain Dental Mr Aubrey Craig Legal David Holmes
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4 MDDUS news 6 News digest
8 Briefing An endless weekend effect
9 Risk Can reflective practice be “incriminating”?
10 Doctor at the deep end Jim Killgore meets Dr Peter Cawston – a GP at the coalface of health and social care integration in Scotland
Cover image Warm Summer Day, Caroline Wright Oil on canvas, 1997.
Art in Healthcare (formerly Paintings in Hospitals Scotland) works with hospitals and healthcare communities across Scotland to encourage patients, visitors and staff to enjoy and engage with the visual arts. For more information visit
www.artinhealthcare.org.uk Scottish Charity No SC 036222.
12 Is human tissue data? Can our tissue be owned or traded? Allan Gaw considers an ethical and legal conundrum
14 Being upfront Doug Hamilton draws the distinction between duty of candour and raising concerns over patient safety in dental practice
16 Case files Telephone triage, Rough treatment, Date of knowledge, Norovirus differential, Car park CCTV, Unwanted chemistry
20 Dilemma How do I respond to a non-compliant patient wanting a repeat prescription?
21 Ethics Asking why – motivation and explanation in ethics
22 Addenda Book choice: I contain multitudes, Object obscura: Chinese surgical set, Crossword and Vignette: Sir Archibald Edward Garrod, discoverer of inborn errors of metabolism
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Photograph: Shannon Tofts
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