In article <000f01c4f4ee$7c8c4da0$6600a8c0@eventmed>, Vic
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> You love being contentious don?t you! ;-)
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> Doctors don?t all have lobotomies when they practice out of the
> Ivory Tower, in fact a few still occasionally work inside them as
> well. Some GP?s can read X-rays and excluding a pneumothorax, a
> fracture or a swallowed FB etc are things that we can deal with in
> General Practice. But I do agree there is an area of overlap.
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Out here in British Canadia we GPs run the emerg as well as our offices
(surgeries). For our MDU/MPS equivalent we have a category which is GP
with Emerg. We see, diagnose and treat many orthopaedic injuries etc.
Major trauma also comes our way and the debate about RSI etc seems
humorous from this angle when we are the only folks around to deal with
things and we just have to get on and do it. We are 2.5 hours by road
from the equivalent of a DGH (when the road is good).
On the whole I think we probably do a reasonable job given the
requirement for diversity.
Cheers
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Jel Coward
http://www.wildmedic.org
http://www.wemsi.org
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