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21 unusual facts about General practitioner


1874 in the United Kingdom

1 April — Dr Frances Morgan marries Dr George Hoggan and they set up the first husband-and-wife general medical practice in the UK.

1986 British Grand Prix

A qualified GP before taking up motor racing in 1978, Palmer stopped his Zakspeed just past Laffite's crashed Ligier-Renault, jumped out and raced to assist the injured Frenchman.

August 1926 Air Union Blériot 155 crash

The local doctor attended and assisted in the evacuation of the injured from the scene.

Baxterley

The village does not have its own doctor's surgery or pharmacy The nearest GP's surgeries can be found in Baddesley Ensor and Hurley.

Cairndow

Medical facilities for the hamlet are provided by the GP in Strachur.

Can't Smile Without You

In 2010, GP Maxine Brooks released the song as a charity single for Nurse's Aid, supporting wounded soldiers and in memory of a WWI heroine.

Cottenham

Cottenham has a fairly wide range of amenities in the village, including two GP surgeries, a dental surgery, a library, a Co-operative store and pharmacy, a junior school, and Cottenham Village College which is a secondary school and adult education college.

Creigiau

Local amenities include a bilingual primary school, which teaches through the medium of both Welsh and English, a golf club, a small Tesco Express shop - which is also the Post Office, a Recreation Ground managed by village residents (home of local archery, cricket, football, petanque and tennis clubs), a GP surgery, and local pub called 'The Creigiau Inn'.

Electoral district of Subiaco

Hugh (later Sir Hugh) Guthrie held the seat until his retirement in 1971, and was followed by local GP Dr Tom Dadour.

Electronic referrals

A variety of barriers exist that inhibit the electronic General practitioner referral pathway to secondary care.

Emily Barclay

Emily Barclay was born in Plymouth to a General practitioner and a landscape designer, and raised in Auckland, New Zealand, where she went to an all-girls school and attended Saturday morning drama classes.

General practitioner

The basic medical degrees in India and Bangladesh are MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery), BAMS (Bachelor of Ayurveda, Medicine and Surgery), BHMS (Bachelor of Homoeopathic Medicine and Surgery) and BUMS (Bachelor of Unani Medicine and Surgery).

Hollow Reed

After Oliver suffers a series of mysterious physical injuries, which he vaguely blames on neighbourhood bullies, suspicions are raised by his father, a GP, against Hannah's boyfriend, Frank.

Hôpital Notre-Dame

In the late nineteenth century, Hôpital Notre-Dame became one of the largest hospitals in the country: it had six specialized departments: General practitioners, surgery, Psychiatry, Ear, Nose and Throat, ophthalmology and Electrotherapy.

Little Eversden

The village has a GP Surgery, a bell ringing club, a sports field and pavilion.

Moneymore

The GP in the Village's Surgery is Dr. Josef Kuriacose who spoke out against the lack of staff at Antrim Area Hsoptial and featured on BBC Newsline.

Patient's Charter

The charter sets out rights in service areas including general practice, hospital treatment, community treatment, ambulance, dental, optical, pharmaceutical and maternity.

Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record

Currently it is reported that on average, each Australian has 22 health system interactions annually, be that General practitioner(GP) visits, specialists, prescriptions etc.

Rothes

Rothes is also manned by a retained fire station and a GP's surgery.

The Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research

It is also undertaking a panel study of General practitioners examining the determinants of medical workforce shortages, undertakes detailed labour market research, is examining the relationship of poverty and human capital and examines the economic impacts of intellectual property.

Wettermark

He and his wife live in a hovel, he owes the bank $600, his wife needs her teeth fixed and he has what the local GP says looks cancerous on the side of his nose.


Bram van der Stok

Later he moved to the U.S. with his wife Petie and their three children, and took practice as a OB-GYN in Syracuse, New York, and as a GP in Ruidoso, New Mexico.

Cedric Howell Swanton

On his return to Australia in 1929 he worked as a general practitioner, but returned to London in 1933 to study psychiatry at the Tavistock Clinic.

DIPEx Charity

DIPEx was established in 2001 by GP Dr Ann McPherson CBE and Dr Andrew Herxheimer after their own experiences of illness.

Family medicine

A medical graduate who has successfully completed the Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) course and has been registered with Indian Medical Council or any state medical council is considered a general practitioner.

Hart of Dixie

The series, created by Leila Gerstein, stars Rachel Bilson as Dr. Zoe Hart, a New Yorker who, after her dreams of becoming a heart surgeon fall apart, accepts an offer to work as a general practitioner in the Gulf Coast town of Bluebell, Alabama.

Highlands Hospital

After the war, 200 post-encephalitic Parkinsonism patients were cared for at the hospital by consultant geriatrician and former general practitioner Joseph Sharkey, whose work at the hospital included the early trials of levodopa in Parkinsonism.

Kathleen Garman

Kathleen Garman was born on 15 May 1901 in Wednesbury, Staffordshire, the daughter of Dr Walter Chancellor Garman (1860–1923), a general practitioner, and his wife, Margaret Frances Magill.

Obstetric Flying Squad

The first organised obstetric flying squad was started by H. J. Thomson in Bellshill, Lanarkshire, Scotland in 1933 to provide emergency back-up to general practitioners and midwives involved in home births.

Owen Spencer-Thomas

EAST and other autism charities were besieged by phone calls from distressed parents following the article by Dr Vernon Coleman, a former general practitioner who was renowned for his outspoken views in his agony uncle column ‘’Casebook’’ in the Sunday People.

Paul Kaiwi

In 2002, he received his Medical Degree from the John A. Burns School of Medicine and entered into the University of Hawaii Family Practice Residency program.

ScriptSwitch Limited

Its primary product, ScriptSwitch, is sold predominantly to NHS Primary Care Organisations who use it to provide GPs with locally authored information and advice at the point of prescribing which can contain patient safety messages, drug switch recommendations and other information.