Obviously GPs should be notified - everyone else expects GPs to be
"team" players when it suits THEM, and this is one more example of
how it can end up being a one way street.
That said regarding medication and investigation are not fertile
womenn regarded as pregnant unless proven or they at least state otherwise?
And while on the subject are they not on the OCP unless they state
otherwise. So much is now accessed outside general practice we are
much more in the position of US family doctors who absolutely can't
rely on having a continuous record.
J
At 19:38 10/12/2011, you wrote:
>My problem is that as a GP I may very well prescribe/order tests/treat a
>patient who is pregnant, may (or may not) have assumed that I would know
>that she *was* pregnant - and may well get inappropriate treatment.
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>OK, patients are also responsible for themselves - but the foetus hasn't
>been consulted.
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>Take the case where, having no reason to think the patient was pregnant, I
>prescribe something I wouldn't have prescribed to a pregnant patient, would
>*I* be liable for damage, or would it be held to be reasonable for the
>patient to assume that the knowledge of her pregnancy would be
>*automatically* passed to the GP by the midwife/ maternity service with whom
>she registered?
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>Mary Hawking
>"thinking - independent thinking - is to humans as swimming is to cats: we
>can do it if we really have to." Mark Earles on Radio 4.
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