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At 18:51 15/08/1996 +0100, Mary H wrote: >I have just refused to prescribe heparin (and supervise a patient's pre- >operative withdrawal from long term warfarin) for a locum surgical >consultant at a local hospital. The patient presented a letter, saying >"..it will be necessary for you to stop your Warfarin... I would like >you to start taking instead on the (date) Heparin,which you will >continue until you come into hospital.It will be necesary for you to >contact Dr (my partner who's on holiday) to change to the subcutaneous >heparin" >When I contacted the surgeon concerned to tell him I could not and would >not do this, he assured me that he had had no problems in the three >other hospitals (and these were all good,major hospitals) where he had >worked in getting GPs to do this. >Can anyone tell me, *is* this part of "usual medical services"? How many >of you have been asked to do this? and how many have done it? >Just curious - I'll still say no..;-) He's lying. Ask for a list of GPs to contact at his previous district to prove it. -------------------------- Dr David J Plews email: [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%