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You are the intern in a Perth emergency department at 0200. Paramedics have just handed over a 78-year-old woman brought in after a fall at home, using the structured format their service uses for every arrival. She has a shortened, externally rotated right leg, and a radiograph shows a displaced subcapital femoral fracture. You now have to telephone the on-call orthopaedic registrar, who is at home, has never met you and has no knowledge of this patient, to request admission. Which one of the following structures should frame that telephone call?
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