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Clinical Opal - Gene Testing
Your next patient is Belinda, a 54-year-old dressmaker and new patient to the practice. Belinda presents to you bearing a sheaf of printed material from the internet and asks for a request form for the MTHFR gene...
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It is Monday morning, and you are reviewing the test results in the inbox of your colleague who has taken a week off work...
Sam was found unresponsive at a scene of a single motorcycle accident. No obvious signs of blood loss or fractures...
Mary is a 69-year-old retired teacher discharged two weeks ago from the local public hospital after repair of a fractured neck of femur...
Millie, a 32-year-old primary school teacher, presents to you with a five week history of diarrhoea...
Sally, a 41-year-old primary school teacher, presents to you with a six-week history of being “tired all the time”...
Jose is a 9 year unvaccinated child with a 5 day history of a low grade fever, cough and sore throat...
Graeme, a 64-year-old retired builder, presented to you for repeat prescriptions two weeks previously as a new patient to the practice...
Zoe is a 41-year-old graphic designer who presents to you with right hip pain...
Terese is a 64-year-old retired teacher who has a 12 year history of type 2 diabetes. She also has hypertension...