‘Covering doctors’ standing in for unavailable colleagues: What is the legal position

Covering doctors are those who stand in for colleagues when the latter are unable to deal with their patients. Covering doctors who begin to issue telephonic instructions to nurses or other healthcare practitioners regarding the treatment of the patients they are covering are in the same position as...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: D McQuoid-Mason
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Health and Medical Publishing Group 2018-12-01
Series:South African Medical Journal
Online Access:http://www.samj.org.za/index.php/samj/article/download/12173/8353