WHAT THE G.P. WANTS FROM A CASUALTY DEPARTMENT BY
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SUalties coming in direct. The general practitioner will expect that cases will be when necessary. When the injury is such that it can be dealt with and the Jent discharged, the doctor expects to have a note sent with the patient from the sualty officer briefly stating the injury, X-ray findings, what has been done, and the treatment recommended. Where the seriousness of the case demands it, the ctor should be informed about it by 'phone. * should be unnecessary for the doctor to have to write a letter referring his patient Uut-Patients, if that patient has sought advice himself at the Casualty department.
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w*sh f?r the case to he detained or admitted the G.P. expects that this will No -one below the status of a registrar should take the decision to refuse *sion in such circumstances. On the other hand often the single visit to Casualty \v fa 1 suffice, and chemotherapy, dressings and removal of stitches could be left to the y doctor, who has the district nurse to call on. This would ease d things at the without unduly loading the doctors individually. In these days of litin> many cases are referred by practitioners for X-Ray examination to protect hj * and a great deal of unnecessary radiography has to be against action, legal aCce Pted. Prompt reports on the wet-films are therefore much appreciated.
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Finger sepsis can lead to serious and prolonged disability, glad to have available such a service with adequate anaesthesia
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GENERAL PRACTITIONER
SUalties coming in direct. The general practitioner will expect that cases will be when necessary. When the injury is such that it can be dealt with and the Jent discharged, the doctor expects to have a note sent with the patient from the sualty officer briefly stating the injury, X-ray findings, what has been done, and the treatment recommended. Where the seriousness of the case demands it, the ctor should be informed about it by 'phone. * should be unnecessary for the doctor to have to write a letter referring his patient Uut-Patients, if that patient has sought advice himself at the Casualty department.
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referred by the fa?nily doctor. ^asua^tles lines similar to exPects report '
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injury can be dealt with at once, the given for direct casualties. If he has
If the that
w*sh f?r the case to he detained or admitted the G.P. expects that this will No -one below the status of a registrar should take the decision to refuse *sion in such circumstances. On the other hand often the single visit to Casualty \v fa 1 suffice, and chemotherapy, dressings and removal of stitches could be left to the y doctor, who has the district nurse to call on. This would ease d things at the without unduly loading the doctors individually. In these days of litin> many cases are referred by practitioners for X-Ray examination to protect hj * and a great deal of unnecessary radiography has to be against action, legal aCce Pted. Prompt reports on the wet-films are therefore much appreciated.
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Finger sepsis can lead to serious and prolonged disability, glad to have available such a service with adequate anaesthesia
family
skilled surgery. rn^rior
and
forth. Individual doctors vary in their desire to engage in lipomata, and since the financial barrier to the hypoaccess to the doctor has been removed, time for minor surgery is hard to sorne doctors and their patients are grateful to have easy access to Casualty
surgery, ^iiiQj. such as chro ,sVr8ery riac's
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