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Doctor not liable where Patient did not present usual symptoms. The respondent general practitioner admitted a breach of duty in failing to ensure that the appellant was spoken to by a doctor earlier on the day in which she suffered a fall in the shower. The trial judge had found as a fact that the appellant had not presented with the usual symptoms of a subarachnoid haemorrhage. The Court of Appeal held that a telephone triage would have made no difference because the doctor would have learnt nothing that would have made a reasonably competent and careful medical practitioner to refer the appellant immediately to hospital.
