The senior partner at my training practice used to ask the (rather
unwilling) practice nurse to undertake this procedure on patients after he
had first applied gentian violet to the affected area (as you do) as his
preferred treatment for candidiasis.
Well, it WAS a long time ago.....
Robert
> -----Original Message-----
> From: GP-UK [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Laurie Miles
> I was just trying to enter that a patient had dry hair (and skin, and
feels
> cold - TFTs ordered), so entered "Hair dry" into the Read keyword parser
in
> Vision, on to be presented with:
> Z2A2 "Drying female perineal area with hair dryer"
>
> This interestingly is a subset of Z2A "Female perineal are care
procedures",
> a part of the heirarchy that I did not know existed.
>
> Firstly, has anyone ever managed to use this woderful code?
> Secondly, as a naïve male, how common is this practice?
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