It’s a funny old world. In my clinic this afternoon I was showing a patient a page in our fee guide, stating the fee for lifestyle advice. My patient is involved in federal initiatives for tobacco... Read More
Letters
As a physician actually practising in the North, I take great offence to the letter of Dr Marlene Hunter in the January/February 2003 issue of your journal [BCMJ 2003;45(1):16-19]. I find it... Read More
In the mid-50s, when some of us were training to become doctors, we were often told that one of our roles in providing health care was to act as the patient’s advocate. This advice was repeated by... Read More
It is perhaps presumptuous to draw conclusions from short acquaintances, however as the late Dr Kenneth Evelyn observed, whilst one swallow does not make a summer, one swallow is one swallow. The... Read More
On 28 January 2003 I underwent a bilateral hernia repair. Big deal, might well be your response! However, the delay between my contact with the general surgeon and operation was less than a week.... Read More