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O'Reilly | 12:51 Thu 06th Sep 2007 | Body & Soul
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This may depend on the hospital involved but..........

In July I had a bad accident and was treated at a local hospital. This included almost daily treatment, dressings and drugs. At the end of July I had yet another accident, so back to the local hospital for dressings and drugs.
Come last month I was referred for treatment to a main hospital. So, three lots of treatment as an outpatient and also drugs included. With me so far?
In seeing the nurse at my Surgery last week I asked if they had the details from 1st July on my file - they don't! I think something is very wrong as some of my medical records are not on my file - and when drugs are involved there's no record to another doctors prescription or even the fact that I had a few accidents. Would this be right? I really would have thought in the day of computer records that my details would have ended up on my Doctors records for me so she would have known what I had been up to.
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were you an inpatient - overnight stay? if so they do a discharge summary. If you've seen a consultant they do a letter to the gp
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no, I was an outpatient.
the cottage hospitals are usually run by the gp's arent they?
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Yes I think so. Seems to be locums and the hospital is attached to my own Doctors surgery.

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