Osteomyelitis Patient Gets Inadequate Treatment – Who’s to blame?

There was an elderly diabetic patient who was admitted to the Endocrinology department of Central Hospital. He had come in with a “diabetic foot“, he was febrile, there was a large ulcer/abscess on the medial surface of his lower limb, stretching from the proximal foot to distal leg. Why Endocrinology instead of Orthopaedic Surgery? Well, [...]