There’s been quiet a lot written in the UK recently about failures in an attitude to care within organisations, and how this is a major root cause of poor healthcare and avoidable death. I was wondering about the links between caring, I guessed best expressed as “empathy”, and how patients or their relatives percieved their […]
Category: practice of medicine
Ray Bradbury’s Grandma
I’ve learnt a lot of things from a lot of people, living and dead. But I often feel that it was in the (fictional) death of Ray Bradbury‘s Grandma that I learnt some of the most important. Ray Bradbury was often characterised as a Science Fiction writer, and I don’t think this bothered him […]
Engineering irrelevance
I have a favourite consultation. Actually, I have a lot of favourite consultations, but this one is pretty high up there. It happens every 18 to 24 months on average. I will have met with a family, and we’ll have got to know each other on a journey (naff word, but can’t find one […]
Flying the nest
So, on a tangent from statistics and not relating to names, management or critical appraisal, I was wondering about transition of adolescents from paediatric care to adult specialities, and was filled with a sense of loss. There have been lots of people tell stories of how the move away from the managed care of community […]