CGPSL NEWSLETTER OF THE COLLEGE OF GENERAL PRACTITIONERS OF SRI LANKA No.6, “Wijerama House”, Wijerama Mawatha, Colombo 7. AUGUST 2007 Tele: 2698894 Fax: 2695188 E-mail:
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[email protected] Website: www.cgp.lk 33RD ANNUAL ACADEMIC OYATA SESSIONS Programme Highlights Pre-Congress – Joint symposium with the National Stroke Association Registration & Fellow ship Breakfast A role for the GP in the medical management of thyroid diseases, Noel Somasundaram Evaluation of a patient with headache in family practice, A T Alibhoy Symposium – Gastro-intestinal disease, Janaka de Silva, Kemal Deen, Arjuna de Silva Symposium – Living with Disaster * Chemical weapons of mass destruction, Asiri Fernando *Role of the GP at site of disaster, Narme Wickremasinghe Symposium – Health Care Waste Management in Practice, D Gopinath, M R Haniffa Prodrome of Alzheimer’s Disease, Asitha de Silva FREE PAPERS NSAIDS – Use, Abuse and Iatrogenic Disease, Priyadharshani Galappaththi Early bird– before 15th September 2007 : Members & Associates Rs.1500.00 Non-members Rs.1750.00 Late and onsite registration : Members & Associates Rs.2000.00 Non-members Rs.2250.00 Students & pre interns Rs.500.00 Free for Registrants: CD of presentations at session Book “Essentials of Family Practice” Dates: 6th – 7th October 2007 Venue: Lionel Memorial Auditorium 6, Wijerama Mawatha, Colombo 7 In this issue *33rd Annual Academic Sessions – p1 *Percy proposes œ p4 *Feel Proud – p2 *Elakiri from Pani – p4 *College CPD Programmes – p2 *The responsibility of the family doctor in a *Lady thanks TFDM for gift of two mice! – p2 commercialised health system riddled with *Spiders in the web – p3 technology – p5 *B anned – p3 *Come to Karachi – p4 *Nice Referrals – p6 *DVT in Outpatients – p8 1 My College œ August 2007 COUNCIL & COMMITTEE NEWS FROM US FEEL PROUD It’s all from you It is not everyday that an editor has the luxury of over fifty contributions We failed to take you up on your from members for inclusion in a publication.