Dr Muhammad Amjad Hussain,
General practitioner, Pakistan
Music Law for the
General Practitioner is well-written and contains a good deal of useful information about the music industry within a manageable space.
A subgroup analysis of the
general practitioners showed that those with greater than 20 years experience were significantly more likely to believe that TDS was a medical diagnosis than their colleagues with less than 20 years of experience (p = 0.0432).
A new society dedicated to the needs of
general practitioners is due to be launched today by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales.
In September 1991, the 2000 persons received an invitation to participate along with a questionnaire about general demographic information and lifestyle, signed by their
general practitioner. All who agreed to participate received an extensive supplementary baseline questionnaire with detailed questions that evaluated the participant's health, lifestyle, psychosocial status, and psychosocial life events.
The
general practitioner, using the electronic patient record, can activate BloodLink to order blood tests.
Chichester GP Dr Grant Kelly told
General Practitioner: "I think it would wake people up to the fact that the NHS has to be paid for.
A Pennsylvania district court ruled in March that a patient may hold a
general practitioner responsible for referring a patient to an incompetent specialist or for not recognizing the specialist's negligent treatment during follow-up care.
The ALI-ABA (Philadelphia, PA) has published an updated edition of What the
General Practitioner Should Know About Patent Law and Practice.
Overall response rates from
general practitioners and consultants were 56% (459/824) and 79% (163/207) respectively,
General practitioner fundholders and
general practitioners from training practices were slightly more likely to respond than other
general practitioners [152 of 247 fundholders responded (61.5%) compared with 304 of 577 non-fundholders (52.7%) and 163 of 248 from training practices (65.7%) compared with 293 of 575 (50.9%) from other practices (P [is less than] 0.05 in both cases)].
Murphy studied outcomes of patients with subacute illnesses presenting to a busy emergency department in Britain who were randomly triaged to either a
general practitioner or an emergency department physician.
A focus of this program is providing outreach services to patients who are not able to travel for medical services and/or have not been able to establish a relationship with a knowledgeable community-based
general practitioner. The outreach services, designed to prevent costly medical complications and improve quality of life for patients, will include healthcare professionals visiting patients m their homes to provide preventive and primary care.