GP Stories - Funny Lump
Aging can cause normal things to look seemingly abnormal, and can make even experienced healthcare professionals fluster and worry, even those that see older people on a daily basis. The care home rounds are one of my highlights of the week, it breaks up the normal week and allows for the continuity of care that is sorely missing in primary care these days. We start with a morning coffee, or in my case Mocha, and I run though the list of patients to see with the nurse in charge. One of the patients was an elderly lady whom the nurses had noticed a lump on the right side of her groin. They wash and dress her and apparently had not seen it before. Wasn't causing her any issues but the carers seemed worried about a hernia.