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Second Opinions: why people seek them, the risks and the benefits

Second Opinions: why people seek them, the risks and the benefits

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Second opinions are an increasingly common request in healthcare and in this episode I look at

reasons why people seek them and their pros and cons


Links:


Martha’s rule: https://www.england.nhs.uk/patient-safety/marthas-rule/


Hyponatraemia (low sodium): https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/hyponatremia/symptoms-causes/syc-20373711


Advice on second opinions: https://www.patients-association.org.uk/getting-a-second-opinion


Tumour Treating Fields: https://www.cancer.org/cancer/managing-cancer/treatment-types/tumor-treating-fields.html


Lithium and MND doesn’t work?: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/archive/news/ioppn/records/2013/march/lithium-shows-no-benefit-to-mnd-patients


Lithium and MND works?: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/centre-for-neuromuscular-diseases/research/experimental-clinical-trials/mnd/motor-neurone-disease-closed-trials/licals-therapeutic

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