At 05:35 01/08/96 +0100, you wrote:
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>>Toby Lipman replied:
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>>I NEVER do a PR on a suspected case of appendicitis. It's a
>>TO>waste of time and unnecessary humiliation for the patient.
>>
>>And I almost never take the temperature either......
>>
>>The decision to admit (or not) is usually obvious and if not,
>>more likely to be revealed by seeing the patient again in a
>>few hours.
>>
>>And don't you just love those hosp docs who want to know over
>>the phone the temp and PR findings .....!
>
>do they need education...? If I have a patient with severe abdominal
>pain,sweats and rigors, I am going to get him/her/it into hospital ..
>regardless of PR *or*temperature - or even of hosp docs :-)
>Mary
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>Too damn right!
mickey Seltzer Glasgow
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