Now, what we need to do is persuade the powers that be that A GP's eye, and
opinion on clinical diagnosis, are valuable.
As we all know, Primary Care is far different than secondary care, and
it often seems odd what consultants pontificate about at times. They
have to remember that they are seeing the 'tip of the iceberg'. I went
to a meeting recently where the orthopaedic surgeon said that
injecting calcaneal spurs was a waste of time. Seems that we have been
wasting a lot of time. I rarely see them again, so it either works or
they are too fearful of a further injection. I suspect the former.
Also a bit like the ophthalmologists who say that unilateral red eye
is rarely conjunctivitis - not here in Cheshire & Staffs!
Paul Bromley