TY - JOUR T1 - Night calls in a single-handed rural practice JF - The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners JO - J R Coll Gen Pract SP - 745 LP - 747 VL - 30 IS - 221 AU - R. J. Cunningham Y1 - 1980/12/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/30/221/745.abstract N2 - Night calls attended by one doctor during five consecutive years (1973 to 1977) in a single-handed rural practice, were analysed and divided into two categories: (a) reasonable; (b) unreasonable. Half the night calls were genuine emergencies but 17 per cent were quite unnecessary. ER -