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Dr Mark Porter gives listeners the low-down on what the medical profession does and doesn't know. Each week an expert in the studio tackles a particular topic and there are reports from around the UK on the health of the nation - and the NHS.
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"I spend half my week practising medicine and the other half writing and talking about it as a GP in Gloucestershire. Working on Case Notes has been a boon for both me and my patients. One of the principal aims of the programme is to keep our listeners up-to-date with the latest developments in healthcare, and to accomplish that I get to interview a wide range of specialists at the cutting edge of medicine. A rare privilege that ensures our listeners aren't the only ones to learn something new."
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Gardening
In this edition of Case Notes, Dr Mark Porter finds out what harm you can do to yourself in the garden, from back pain to insect bitesÌýand skin rashes caused by toxic plants.
His guest in the studio is Dr Steve Longworth, a GP who often sees the results of an afternoon's gardening in his surgery.
Toxic plants
Dr Chris Lovell is a consultant dermatologist at the Royal United Hospital in Bath, and author of Plants and the Skin – a reference work on the diagnosis and management of skin rashes caused by plants.ÌýHe describes some of the reactions people can have to plants found in the garden.
We also hear from botanist Liz Dauncey from the Poisons Information Service at Guy’s and St Thomas’s.
With the help of colleagues from the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, she has produced a CD-ROM, Poisonous Plants and Fungi in Britain and Ireland, available from kewbooks.com,Ìýto help medical staff identify plants and treat the resulting problems from coming in contact with them.
Aspergillus
'Gardening can seriously damage your health' is not the sort of headline you expect to see on the front page of a medical journal like the Lancet.
But that's what happened in June this year when the Lancet highlighted the case of a man who was killed by a microbe in his compost.Ìý
The Aspergillus mould is very common in gardens and is known to cause allergies, but in rare cases it can lead to a lung infection which can prove fatal.
Mark speaks to Dr David Waghorn, one of the authors of the report in the Lancet, about how the gardener's condition developed.
Next week: Bariatric Surgery |
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RELATED LINKS
´óÏó´«Ã½ Health: Poisonous Plants
´óÏó´«Ã½ Health: Bites and Stings
´óÏó´«Ã½ Health: Understanding Back Pain
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