Episode 18

A look at how patients should decide whether to go to A&E or a GP, including the case of a patient who has recently completed a course of antibiotics for an insect bite on his face. Other patients include a man with a case of gout that has caused his leg to balloon in size and a woman who needs an over-40s health check owing to her family's history of heart disease.

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