The Medical Digest, or Practitioners Vademecum

The Medical Digest, or Busy Practitioner's Vade-Mecum

The Medical Digest, or Busy Practitioner's Vade-Mecum

Medical Practitioners Act 2007: the increased medical record burden.

New medical record keeping obligations are implemented by the Medical Practitioners Act (2007), effective July 2009. This audit, comprising review of 347 medical entries in 257 charts on one day, investigated compliance with the Act together with the general standard of medical record keeping. The Medical Council requirement was absent all but 3 (0.9%) of entries; there was no unique identifier...

Dental Surgery for Medical Practitioners

tartar but the latter in the first place is purely a deposit of lime salts from saliva. On pp. 56 and 57 he states that the carbohydrate eating Indians are freer from caries than meat-eating Europeans. This may be true, but it is not the meat portion of European diet that causes caries, but the various other patent and manufactured foods that they eat. On the other hand the tremendous prevalenc...

Dental Surgery for Medical Practitioners