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Problem: discharge-medication reviews and inhaler cases need technique evidence, not just drug lists — yet letters report prescriptions without performance....
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Problem: pharmacy letters sprawl across every medicine ever taken — the reader drowns in drug histories while the actual question hides. Answer in brief:...
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Problem: the commonest referrals feel too routine to practise — yet routine cases carry the same marks as rare ones, and interdisciplinary letters confuse...
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Problem: eye emergencies lose vision by the hour, but referral letters queue them like routine cases — no flashes/floaters screen, no curtain description,...
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Problem: eye referrals live on two numbers — acuity and timeline — yet letters bury them in narrative. Answer in brief: referral architecture puts vision...
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Problem: OT letters contain the richest functional detail in OET — and the worst organisation, because everything feels important. Answer in brief:...
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Problem: complex OT cases — brain injury with behaviours, chronic pain with Oscar-winning scans, eating disorders with medical risk — resist standard...
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Problem: OT referrals span stroke wards and sensory clinics — writers either medicalise function or narrate without questions. Answer in brief: OT letters...
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Problem: real patients bring all three — diabetes plus CKD plus heart disease — but writers produce three mini-letters stapled together. Answer in brief:...
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Problem: update and progress letters read as diaries — "seen, advised, review" — giving the GP nothing to act on. Answer in brief: updates report change...
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Problem: dietitian referrals drift into diet sheets — long food lists, no clinical question — while the GP or specialist hunts for the reason. Answer in...
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Problem: the highest-stakes dental decision is triage — which lesion is urgent, which pain is joint vs tooth, which prosthodontic case needs surgery first....
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