Significant Events

摘要

I had a Significant Event recently. Not, you understand, a real significant event such as a bereavement or a son getting married; but a Significant Event involving a Patient. You know — the kind we make notes on and proudly enter in our appraisal portfolios. The Event was the discovery that a patient’s mild but long-standing anaemia was almost certainly a side effect of treatment with carbamazepine. Not that significant (although finding that I had made the same discovery a couple of years ago and forgotten did make it moderately Significant for me personally), but it did set me thinking.