Deputising general practitioners' role in emergencies

Patient satisfaction with general practitioner deputising services.

Proposed increases in the average hours of surgery sessions of general practitioners as part of the government programme for improving primary health care may result in more use of deputising services to provide off duty cover. The satisfaction of patients with such a service was studied during one week of October 1987 at nine of the 29 branches of Air Call Medical Services in urban areas in Br...

Emergencies in General Practice

Ophthalmic Emergencies in General Practice.

drawing taken from life. The optic nerve has become medullated beyond the disc, and when these medullated fibres are present the disc loses its sharp edge and the vessels disappear and reappear from the mass of white tissue so that there is a very definite resemblance to papilloedema. It will be noticed, however, that the surface of the nerve head is not elevated, and that the white area is not...

Persian medicine information needs of general practitioners in Isfahan city

Introduction: To improve the capabilities of general practitioners (GPs), who constitute an essential segment of the healthcare system in Iran, it is necessary to identify their information needs about Persian medicine. This survey-based study aimed primarily to determine the information needs of GPs in Isfahan city about Persian medicine, and secondarily to evaluate the assocaition between the...

Emergencies of General Practice