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<prescribing choices that>...his or her peers agree to be acceptable
practice
Yes, indeed, and his or her peers are about to be enabled to make their
agreement a little more visible, formal, open and forceful.
And also to provide him with the tools to both know what he has been
doing, and to the extent that it is evident, what he probably ought to
be either doing, or deciding properly not to do.
The current climate in medicine and the health service requires that
when one for instance stops the Warfarin a patient with AF is taking
one documents the reason why, and this should be all right, whereas if
one simply didn't start it, one would have to blame the State for not
providing a record-keeping system which offered the easily available
assitance of reminding one about it... or else accept responsibility
for not aplying the evidence appropriately.
Might the medically qualified chief executive of an HA be liable to the
GMC for not managing to provide the funding for computerised
interactive record systems which make such alerts possible, if other
HAs have managed to do better? I feel that opinion and practice in the
public; NHS and GMC is shifting in that direction, if it has not
already done so.
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