Assessment of the returned traveller.
The occupational health physician is in a unique position to provide total care for the returned traveller. In a sense, the physician packs and unpacks with the patient and ensures that other carers consider a wider range of disease possibilities than may be found in the home country. Follow-up tests and examinations are comparatively simple and where necessary specialist advice should be sought.
Easmon
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Hospital for Tropical Diseases, London, UK. ceasmon@hotmail.com
D006801:Humans; D009787:Occupational Medicine; D014195:Travel