In a message dated 01/08/96 21:25:25, Doug Jenkinson writes:
>Such a maxim must be one of the commandments of doctor centred
>medicine and therefore inappropriate for modern general practice
>in most (?some) of the UK.
Does he thus imply that patient centered medicine involves doing uneccessary
investigations to reassure the patient of their normality? Doctor centered
medicine may be inappropriate, but not investigatiing unless you are
investigating for a particular purpose with a range of diagnostic or
treatment options in mind, which will be altered by the results of the test,
is IMHO good clinical practice, in the UK or anywhere else.
Trefor Roscoe Email; [log in to unmask]
Beighton Health Centre Tel 0114 - 269 5061
Queens Road, Beighon Fax 0114 - 269 7186
Sheffield S19 6BJ
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