WHILE in the past I have bemoaned GPs who say they don’t have the time to maintain accurate electronic clinical records and keep up with data cleansing, many GPs must be commended for making a big effort to move from paper to electronic record keeping.
It can be a difficult task for GPs who trained and started general practice well before computerisation. In this respect, I have to admire the efforts of Dr Selvanayagam Selvendra, a solo practitioner working in Melbourne’s western suburbs.
Dr Selvendra has just celebrated 50 years working as a medical practitioner.
He qualified in 1960 in Ireland and, after practising in England and Ireland from 1960-1967, completed his postgraduate training in surgery, receiving surgical fellowships in England, Ireland...
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