Inner cities have little exposure to such things as Lyme’s disease.
I dealt many years ago with a critically ill patient with post-viral myocarditis and his sister ranted on about the GP, until I pointed out that he had actually saved his life, because he knew there was something wrong but didn’t know what and referred him to hospital, I also pointed out he may never have seen a case in his career.
Many GPs may never see a case of Lyme’s disease, they treat what is common 99.9% of the time in their area.
Yeah, even so, when I presented at my local surgery they had to make a phonecall to discuss treatment. Back then it wasn’t seen very often in our area so they weren’t genned up on how to deal with it.
The RIAT debacle was not as bad as is often pedalled. We should stop making it sound like the actual harm caused is worse than it actually was, it just fuels our systemic fear of the heat and cold. To quote from the Occurrence Safety Investigation:
The RIAT 22 Heat Related Injuries Summary Report, which identified over 70
cases of Heat Stroke was misleading
…as much about stopping all other activities and continuing regardless on the edge of a red zone, as it was the heat injuries and negative stories from those that were there.
Right, because only a doctor can diagnose heat stroke. But there were 70 recorded cases of heat related injury, which were incorrectly labeled as heat stroke.
I think that was the logic from the 22 Gp report into what happened.
Exactly. All other activity stopped, yet this went ahead. And the argument that out was right on the edge of the red zone was always BS as many staff and cadets would have been traveling through the red zone!