HOSPITAL PRACTICE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 92, 18 March 1936, Page 11

HOSPITAL PRACTICE.

AUCKLAND SCHEME. Per Pcess Association. AUCKLAND, March 17. A scheme by which private medical practitioners may enter the hospital for the purpose of following the progress of their patients and obtaining information of an educational vaTue to themselves was adopted by the Auckland Hospital Board on the motion of Dr. Hastings. The motion was as follows: “That medical men sending patients into Auckland Hospital be notified (a) in the case oi medical patients in what ward the patient is and at what hour and so on what day he can meet the honorary in charge of the case; (b) in the case of surgical patients at what hour and on what day the patient will fie operated on, and further in. which theatre the operation will be_ performed.” Dr. Hastings said the medical superintendent, Dr. Craven, had adopted the good practice on a patient’s discharge of notifying the family doctor and giving particulars of the patient’s history in hospital and of the treatment applied. He would suggest, however, that the plan outlined in his motion would be an improvement if general practitioners were allowed entry into the hospital to witness operations and confer with members of the honorary staff. They would be greatly assisted in keeping themselves up-to-date and would he enabled to follow the progress of their patients.