TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Embarrassing moments A1 - Murtagh AO, John A1 - Bird, Sara Y1 - 2019 N1 - T2 - Murtagh's Cautionary Tales, 3rd Edition AB - We were very busy with sick patients, teaching students and the GP registrar, and taking many phone calls. However, I stopped to answer a query from our registrar who was inspecting a very black lesion on the forearm of a middle-aged male patient: ‘Do you think I should excise this suspicious pigmented lesion?’ After a cursory glance I said, ‘A good idea—use the standard elliptical excision with a 3 mm margin and send it to pathology’. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education (Australia) Pty Ltd CY - Sydney, Australia Y2 - 2024/04/19 UR - murtagh.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1163948540 ER -