Letters
Writing outpatient letters to patients
Outpatient letters to patients: a less authoritarian tone
BMJ 2020; 368 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m951 (Published 13 March 2020) Cite this as: BMJ 2020;368:m951
- Gerald Freshwater, retired specialist occupational physician
- Lerwick, UK
- freshwater.sms{at}gmail.com
For around 10 years, the General Medical Council has required occupational physicians to provide to patients, on request, copies of any report they have written for whoever commissioned it. We have become accustomed to making these reports …
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