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Repeat visits for ‘flu-like illness’ should ring alarm bells
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Repeat visits for ‘flu-like illness’ should ring alarm bells
Thursday 19 October 2017, 03:04 PM

Students are a population at higher-than-average risk for meningococcal disease
A student with a flu-like illness ends up in hospital after two health clinic visits. As Wellington barrister Gaeline Phipps explains, events from thereon only get worse, for the patient and the doctor
On 19 May 2014, a usually healthy 20-year-old student with functional hearing became unwell. She informed the nurse at the student health clinic that
Kia ora and welcome to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa
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References
1. A Report by the Health and Disability Commissioner. Decision 15HDC01144.
2. Also opined in other writings: Wilson H, Cunningham C. Being a doctor – understanding medical practice. Otago University Press; 2013:p 222.