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A woman with a 10 year history of abdominal pain

BMJ 2018; 360 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.k603 (Published 29 March 2018) Cite this as: BMJ 2018;360:k603

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Re: A woman with a 10 year history of abdominal pain

What happened to "listen to the patient, she's telling you the diagnosis"? This woman was told in the past she should be on a gluten free diet. Could a look through her old notes have saved her (and the nhs) a CT scan, 2 ultrasounds, a gastroscopy and colonoscopy?

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30 March 2018
Lisa M Melhuish
GP
St Mary's Surgery, Windermere