A Review of Three Years Experience of Medical Advice to Seafarers by the Casualty Officer, Royal Naval Hospital Plymouth, via Portishead Radio (W/T Medico Portishead)

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Abstract
Since August 1975 successive Casualty Officers at the Royal Naval Hospital, Plymouth, have been dealing with medical problems in the Mercantile Marine at sea by telegram and radio-telephone through Portishead radio. Analysis of the medical problems for which Masters have sought advice, the range of drugs prescribed, the medical skills expected of lay seafarers and the problems involved in communicating medical data are reviewed. Diet associated factors such as alcohol and obesity appeared to have a significant aetiological role in many of the diseases reported.

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