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A memorable patient
The one neither of us saw
BMJ 1999; 318 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.318.7197.1552 (Published 05 June 1999) Cite this as: BMJ 1999;318:1552- Anne Seymour, retired consultant in accident and emergency
- South Shields.
It was a long time ago. In those days I was a surgical registrar—I retired three ago—and our colleagues in the laboratory were called laboratory technicians. I had been nine years in Africa, come home and done the fellowship, and was mother of the mess.
On a Friday morning I was working on the ward when I was called by one of the technicians. “First of all, would you tell the housemen that there is a slide absolutely packed with malarial parasites of Plasmodium falciparum if …
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