Severe headache
Candidate Instructions 🧒
You are an FY1 doctor in general practice.
Your next patient Mrs Emily Peterson (DoB 15/09/1970) is pregnant and attending the surgery complaining of a severe headache.
The practice nurse has measured Mrs Peterson's blood pressure (164/112) and urine dipstick which shows protein +++.
Please elicit a history from the patient and answer the patient’s questions.
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