In message <[log in to unmask]> you wrote:
> There seems to be a perception in the publics' mind that doctors find
> it difficult to admit mistakes and say"sorry". They seem to feel
> that we "close ranks" and erect "walls of silence". Some even think
> that, on occasions, records seem to mysteriously vanish. I have
> been told that, from the publics' point of view, all they want is
> an aknowledgement of the mistake and, perhaps, in appropriate
> cases, re-training for the doctor(s) involved.
>
> What do honourable members think?
Even a relatively short time in general practice hones one's
bullshit-detector to the extent that I can now spot it at
a hundred paces.
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Iain Hotchkies MBChB ambition: polymath
currently: jack of all trades
www.hotch.demon.co.uk corollary: master of none
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