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> 13 yr old lass with long history of sweaty palms, all of the time.
> Otherwise fine, ie no other XS perspiration - axillae etc.
> Ideas for management gratefully received.
A career in fingerpainting.
Those antiperspirants in the small print section
of the BNF.
Water sprinkler in the summer. Stand over the plants
and wave her hands to and fro.
Refer to specialist for seriously worrying operations
on her sympathetic nerves.
Hypnotherapy.
Reflexology.
Rolfing.
I don't know what Rolfing is but I like saying it.
Boot her off the list. We can all do without these
patients that present interesting diagnostic
conundra (plural?) Bastards!
--
Dr Iain L M Hotchkies / http://www.hotch.demon.co.uk (unpublished
novels and lots of other fun stuff, but very little hard-core porn)
"My experience has been from working in the UK that GPs will screw each
other but will be fairly supine when fighting with the Government or
charging the patients proper fees when they are due."
(Dr Sachit Shah, as posted on GP-UK 12th February 1998)
"Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes, there
is something in them that is not disagreeable to him." (Samuel Johnson)
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