At 11:10 PM 11/01/98 +0000, you wrote:
>Paul Caldwell wrote:
>>
>> I was idily chatting to a solicitor yesterday and he was saying that the
only
>> way that the proposed nurse run NHS 888 line could legally cover itself
was by
>> ending all advice on medical matters with the well-known phrase "if you are
>> really concerned, then you should contact a doctor" or something like it.
>
>Doubt it. The only cover would possibly be if, at the outset, there was
>a recording to the effect "This service is provided to you by the
>National Health Service as an entertainment only. We are totally
>incapable of giving reliable medical advice over the telephone and will
>only answer your question on the basis you agree not to rely on the
>answer whatsoever and to go immediately to your nearest doctor and
>bother him instead. If you wish to proceed press 1. If you have a pulse
>only phone hold on for further denials of responsibility. If you do not
>have a pulse, bye bye."
>
>Graham Ross
Are you saying that advice given by nurses is NOT reliable? And are you
suggesting that we might practice outside our professional code of conduct?
Maresah Haines
http://www.haines.grid9.net/pn/
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