Adrian Midgley wrote:
Not a doctor thing though, is it.
I suspect the very clever high tech expensive aural thermometer may
be making work for us - whereas any fool can buy and use a liquid
crystal
strip, and certainly buy and likely use a glass clinical thermometer,
and the digital electronic ones are only a few pounds, it
would be a little much to expect all citizens to have a bolometer
in their residence.
Mind you, I saw a bundle in the local pharmacy, Braun handheld food
processor and aural tehrmometer packaged together. The former is
one of my favourite kitchen tools.
--- OffRoad 1.9r registered to Adrian Midgley
Yes, I would never advise Mr or Mrs Joe Public to purchase an aural
thermometer as the cost would never justify its infrequent use.
I had to look up the word 'bolometer' in my Oxford Dictionary (n. electrical
instrument for measuring heat radiation). Amusingly, it appeared just after
'bollocks' (apologies, but it is in the dictionary, and after 9pm) and
precedes 'boloney'.
Is my dictionary trying to tell me something...........?:)
Regards
Joegy Shah, GP, Lancashire
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From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Adrian Midgley
Sent: 19 December 1998 15:41
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Subject: Re: RE: Taking tempertures
[log in to unmask],Net wrote at 01:35 on 19/12/98
about "RE: Taking tempertures":
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>Rob Johnson wrote
>>But does it ever alter your management.? I can't remember the last
>time
>>I took a patient's temp. The only time I use a thermometer is if my
>son
>>says he is unwell. If he has a temp then home and Calpol if not then
>>off to school.
>
>By your own admission, taking a temperature alters your management
>Joegy Shah, GP, Lancashire
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