Winner of the CMJ essay competition 2019.

Group consultations are a new model of medical care in the UK, with a pilot scheme soon to be introduced in Cambridgeshire. This article introduces the concept and discusses the evidence behind it.

This report highlights the management challenges in patients with severe inherited bleeding disorders who develop an indication for anticoagulation or anti-platelet treatment in the context of the relativity uncommon entity of carotid artery dissection.

In this Letter to the Editor, James Anderton warns about potential adverse psychological ramifications for medical students and newly-qualified F1’s due to uncertainty from the covid-19 pandemic.

Arnold and Cameron describe a squamous cell carcinoma of the oral cavity in a patient with lower limb arteriopathy. The impact of comorbidities on surgical management of diseases such as cancer is an exigent discussion due to ageing populations.

During the past decades, terrorism in different regions of the world is affecting the psychological wellbeing among the populations. Here we assess the psychological status in terms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Depression among the terrorism affected Hazara community of Quetta.

We report a paediatric case of a 6-year-old girl with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) who presented with easy bruising and gum bleeding. Following diagnosis and treatment as pre-B cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (pre-B ALL) the patient developed an acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) which was refractory to all available curative therapies.

An 81-year-old Chinese lady complained about worsening shortness of breath, paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnoea and dyspnoea at rest since 3 days before admission from nursing home. The symptoms were relieved by sublingual glyceryl trinitrate and oxygen.

Winner of the Edinburgh University Neurological Society Essay Competition 2019.