Today, I "took over" one very irritating referal from a private doctor, "for further Mx". The letter was written in a short and small 2 pages of paper, with a list of problems, one of which was "Abnormal Ba meal examination". Ye, a new "medical diagnosis" I supposed.
No detail descriptions/investigations/results or what-so-ever attached. What happen to our professionalism nowadays? No courtesy at all. Expect me (and subject the patient) to full and complete history taking/physical examination/investigation again? In my daily busy clinic?
Oh so irritating. So stingy in private practice but cannot use proper A4 paper!
ReplyDeleteI wonder why patients don't have a negative impression of the referral doctor!
This is not new. In my early days as an MO I received a single piece of referral measuring smaller than the size of your "555" book!
So disgusting!
Aiya.. My hypothesis: perhaps the referring doctor wasn't the one who did the tests and didn't have the info. He/she probably had a hard time digging out the history from the patient too. So.. he/she just wrote the facts and no speculation.
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