The medical record.

In summary, the medical record not only helps a physician care for a patient, but may in the future also offer an indelible defense if the record is kept carefully and meticulously. 'In the courtroom, medical records are witnesses whose memory never dies.'

Ambulatory extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy.

The Kidney Stone Center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, is an ambulatory ESWL facility where 226 patients have been treated since July, 1985. A total of 258 kidneys were treated over a period of five months with a success rate of 99 per cent. The post-treatment admission rate, both immediate and delayed, was 14.