Sarcomatoid carcinomas are a rare type of prostate cancer and are associated with a poor prognosis. We present the case of an 80-year-old gentleman who presented with rectal bleeding and his CT scan revealed an incidental pelvic cystic mass. He initially underwent attempted ultrasound-guided drainage and transurethral resection for this.
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August 2019
Entrepreneurship and innovation are important skills doctors must be equipped with to face the economic crisis engulfing the NHS. The £30 billion funding gap the NHS will face by 2020 requires doctors who are able to face these upcoming financial and organizational difficulties. Frontline staff are uniquely placed to identify inefficiencies in the health care system and develop solutions to them, so changing the medical school curricula to provide entrepreneurship and innovation development will benefit the NHS.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis is a supplementary letter in response to Kurtz and colleagues' recent publication exploring the creation of assessments for active learning, with the aim of discussing some of the important points raised by the authors and improvements based on our experience as final year medical students.
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