He's got a point though...
>-- Original Message --
>Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 20:17:56 -0000
>Reply-To: Accident and Emergency Academic List <[log in to unmask]>
>From: Rowley Cottingham <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: See and Treat
>To: [log in to unmask]
>
>
>"I would note that David Lammy (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
>for
>Health with responsibility for emergencies) has spoken out against
>having
>admitting teams assessing patients in A and E as to whether they should
>be
>admitted- the idea being that the first person to assess them should be
>competent to make the decision and if this can't be done, they should go
>to
>a clinical decision unit (which he feels should be in a proper ward)."
>
>Alert! Alert! Potential breach of medical autonomy! Curtains round Dr
>Dunn, curtains round Dr Dunn!
>
>Like I care what some pipsqueak politician thinks. "The first person to
>assess them should be competent to make the decision." Great. Now tell
>him to fund 12 Consultants in my department.
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