2023, issue 25

An inadvertent injury and a factual dispute

The DDU successfully defended a member whose account of an adverse incident differed from that offered by the patient in the subsequent claim.

As the patient was on warfarin - an anticoagulant medication - it was not possible to entirely halt the bleeding.

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