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Medical Treatment Handbook
Ch 10 Definitions
10.3 What constitutes medical treatment?
- 10.3.6 'medicines' - paragraph (h)
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Packaged dietary foods, recommended by a medical practitioner for weight loss and the relief of pain, are 'medicines' in terms of paragraph (h): Pembshaw and Department of Defence (1996). Any requests for payment for herbal medicines must be supported by the referring/prescribing doctor and considered using the 'reasonable treatment' test.