Recent Posts Tagged With 'gp'

• Are nurses ‘perfectly able to do more’?

  Posted on Thursday February 26th, 2009 at 18:48 in gp, medicare, funding, nurses, primary care, primary health care, nursing news

  credit: striatic I wanted to make mention of an article from The Australian last week, titled Nurses perfectly able to do more. It’s an interesting article for several reasons; firstly because it makes reference to the ever growing problems fa...

• Loyalty to one GP

  Posted on Wednesday October 22nd, 2008 at 08:35 in doctor, gp, old, person, loyalty, loyal, elderly, general practitioner

  credit: wilding.andrew I was bemused today when thinking about how many elderly patients have one primary doctor for most of their life. They often feel that they need to be loyal to this GP, and sometimes will refuse to see any other doctor. These ...

• Is it really an emergency?

  Posted on Monday October 20th, 2008 at 04:25 in gp, emergency, emergency room, non-emergency, emergency department, frivolous, emergency and triage, not an emergency

  photo credit: viva la vibs There has been a lot written on emergency departments and the frequency of patients who attend for frivolous and stupid complaints. Certainly this has become a part of my day to day life, and there have been many times whe...