Following my previous post on the use of first names, and entirely by coincidence, the folk over at St Emlyns blogged on a very similar subject, but extended the discussion a little to what your patients should call you. I pulled up short about in discussing this before and I’ve been wondering why since. How […]
Category: error
What’s in a name?
Much of the time I’m called Ian, and at others I’m called Dr Wacogne. I do get called some other things, but I can’t write them here. We’ve just greeted a new group of foundation (intern) doctors, and I have, as ever, entirely befuddled on them by emphasising that I am Ian, at all times […]
Learning how to fail. Safely.
There’s a great TED talk by Brian Goldman called “Doctors make mistakes. Can we talk about that?” After a pre-amble which is pretty North American – baseball stats, which he makes thankfully very clear to those of us who simply don’t get it – he describes the fact that he makes mistakes in his medical practice. […]