Join us for a relaxed round up of this month’s Red Whale primary care Pearls of wisdom. This month, Nik and Caroline discuss: 

• Bites: human, animal and insect. It’s still that time of year when the triage list is full of: “Bite ? Infected”. We look at all things bite related including assessment, management and who needs antibiotics.
• DeQuervain’s tenosynovitis: what is it and why we shouldn’t suggest it might have an occupational cause. 
• Some tips for doing the 6-8 week baby check: as a welcome to our new GPSTs, and for those of us who learned this longer ago that we like to admit to, have we thought about what might have changed?   
• Assertiveness: often we say yes to things that help our patients and colleagues, but sometimes we need to say no. If we do need to say no, how good are we at being assertive? 

And hear a cautionary tale from a listener about how, despite the best intentions, a nail issue didn’t turn out to be as straight forward as first thought…

Lyme disease rash:

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/lyme-disease/

https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/signs_symptoms/rashes.html

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