Must read post from Dr Crippen

Dr Crippen has had some inside information leaked about NHS cutbacks in Northallerton.

The following patients are “deemed” not to need admission from Accident & Emergency Department. (Lovely word, “deemed”. What does it mean? Why not omit if from the sentence? Why not just say “the following patients do not need admission…? But I digress.)

• those with an upper limb fracture
• those with back disorders
• those with a “pelvis lower limb fracture (whatever that may be)
• those with “complex elderly musculoskeletal” problems
• those with fractures of the pubic rami
  

The following patients are “deemed” (that word again) to be “unlikely” to need admission:

• Poisoning
• Angina
• arrhythmia or “other chest pain”
• those with asthma.

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This is pretty terrifying stuff.