> I cannot give data on the viability of obs units from a monitory point
> of
> view. I do remember from the 1970's when I worked in the ambulance
> service
> that they were common place in all the large teaching hospitals in
> London
> that I visited. Among which were St. Thomas', Guys, UCH, Middx,
> Westminster,
> Royal Free, Royal Northern, Lewisham, GDH, etc., etc. I would imagine
> that
> they are an immense drain on NHS resources. However I also remember
> some of
> the squalor to which incapable people returned home. There are also
> examples
> of patients being sent home only to die from unrecognised inter-cranial
> haemorrhage. Since cost is an issue would all patients receive CT scans
> or
> would it in reality be a case of time presured doctors relying on their
> skills to recognise the underlying condition?
I don't know how to begin to address this sort of remark.
Rowley Cottingham
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