Elizabeth Dodd wrote: > On Thursday 07 December 2006 21:04, Oliver Frank wrote: > >> "6.2.1 A "referral" is a request to a specialist or a consultant >> physician for investigation, opinion, treatment and/or management of a >> condition or problem of a patient or for the performance of a specific >> examination(s) or test(s). >> > and it follows the taking of a history and examining the patient and > concluding that it is appropriate > > that's a paraphrase but that sentiment is in there > so I don't do a 'quick referral to Dr No please and make it indefinite'. > Earlier this year, the HIC shut down the WA doc who was going to do on-line referrals without seeing the patient for $20 per throw. I understand it was the Act that stopped him. Either that or the HIC put enough frighteners on him to make him walk away.
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