Medical consultation (patient-doctor encounter), consisting of history taking, physical examination and treatment, is the starting point of any contact between doctor and patient. Learning to conduct a consultation is a complex skill. Both communicative and medical contents need to be applied and integrated. Conducting an adequate consultation is a skill which is gradually learned and perfected...

Introduction: Internet and online services are part of everyday life. We perceive as normal their use in various activities. It’s normal for healthcare and medicine to use them. Aim: To investigate e-mail use for online consultation by GPs. Materials and methods: Written questionnaire. Results: Physicians don’t have business e-mail and don’t use their personal one for online consultation. Desir...

Requested consultation/treatment: Consultation only Consultation and limited treatment Return to referring dentist Comprehensive care Special Instructions: Behavior/age Special health care needs/medically compromised (call 319-353-6711) Rampant caries Treatment under general anesthesia Treatment under conscious sedation Comments: _________________________________________________________________...

In response to European Union requirements, recent legislation in the UK has introduced for the first time a general regulatory framework promoting employee consultation. The 2002 EU employee consultation Directive reflected the predominant European model of universal, workforce-wide consultation rights and had particularly significant implications for UK law and practice, given the ‘voluntaris...

INTRODUCTION An important area of communication in healthcare is the consultation. Existing literature suggests that formal training in consultation communication is lacking. We aimed to conduct a targeted needs assessment of third-year students on their experience calling consultations, and based on these results, develop, pilot, and evaluate the effectiveness of a consultation curriculum for ...

Complexity theory has attracted considerable attention in recent years, both within medicine and in the wider world. Its themes of uncertainty and non-linearity resonate deeply with the experience of working in general practice. Describing the consultation as a complex, adaptive system provides a coherent theoretical basis for understanding the consultation, which has so far been lacking. Under...

The consultation/liaison service provides an excellent opportunity to showcase the skills and knowledge base of psychiatrists. Clinical issues that arise at the interface of psychiatry, medicine, and surgery can prove challenging and often require a multimodal approach that involves pharmacological and nonpharmacological interventions. This article summarizes 5 cases from consultation services ...

The scandal of medical witnesses being retained on opposite sides in courts of law and crivin" what looks like partisan evidence is often the subject of remark and sneer, and it is mooted that if medical men cited as witnesses by opposing litigants were to meet in consultation before thecase came into court and were to arrive at some sort of agreement regarding the fact and the opinion founded ...