In message <[log in to unmask]>, Robbie Coull
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>In the end the only real alternative to telephone triage is to create 20
>million hospital beds and pass a law saying everyone must live in the A+E
>dept or train 20 million triage nurses and billet them in every house in the
>country.
Not the only alternative -- earlier in the thread the idea of basic
"medical" education in schools was raised -- I've often thought this
would be an excellent idea, you have to keep it to absolute basics, eg
BLS, when chest pain needs to be seen and what to do with minor cuts,
and the basics of when a minor cut might not be -- eg my patient who
wasn't concerned about the lack of sensation down the ulnar border of
his thumb -- can be passed on. Again it is unlikely to reduce our
workload but may improve the quality of appropriate treatment folk get.
--
Sam Waddy
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