Home visits:
When I first started Patients had no cars, public transport never went where
you wanted to go
and people rode to work on bicycles. TV had not been invented.
Pubs shut at six. Dads decided if the kids need to see the doctor.
So when dad sobered up and we had finished evening surgery we did calls.
During day/night we did injectable diuretics, asthma, bilary,renal colic,
coronary and strokes call.
TV came, evening surgeries went, pubs opened late, Mum assumed control.
No evening calls and few daytime ones.
Came Coronary/stroke care ambulances. Preventative therapy for stroke,
coronary, asthma etc.
Virtually none but remember the cost if we call.
Our reception staff negoitiate for daytime calls or as nominated by doctor.
Night calls via deputising service which charge both us and patient.
We call on mostly old, frail andthose with difficult relatives. Last one
to many corsets, vests and overgarments to find the cause of her limp - saw
her next day at home - hip replacement needed.
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Gerard Flaherty FRACGP 67 Hopkins Street Moonah Tasmania 7009 AUSTRALIA
(The less sad Island south of Australia)
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Fax 61-03 62781257(new 1996)
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