Hospital Admissions and Investigations

The patient and the x-ray department.

“…In present circumstances overall personal care of the patient falls into no man's land. We believe that there is a case for a special receptionist who should correlate patients' and departmental needs, provide a bridge of communication, and also liaison between outpatients and admission services, so that admissions for radiological investigations could be regulated to save the time of the patient and wastage of bed occupancy (Ministry of Health, 1967;Samuel, 1968).…”