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Graeme Mackenzie, out of hours general practitioner

¹North Cumbria

graeme{at}papmacks.co.uk

I am a full time, out of hours general practitioner. I admit patients to hospital for two reasons.1 Firstly, if my top differential diagnosis has a illness trajectory that might result in the patient coming to harm if he or she is not admitted. Secondly, if the functional state of the patient is such that …