In article <[log in to unmask]>, Declan Fox
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>Could
>anyone who identifies with TIm please tell us?
I certainly do not. I find it his point of view worrrying in a senior
colleague but do remember it as a not uncommon finding in hospital
consultants a few years ago, the majority of who now appear to have
changed, thank goodness.
When I see the headlong rush back into scientific reductionism, with IT,
EBM, goon squads (sorry, CHIMP) etc I fear for the profession and that
it may lose the very humanity which is its cornerstone, and also its
vulnerability. We are losing too many people like yourself and Ahmad who
touch the service with humanity and personal excellence. The new
rationalism is to be welcomed, of course, but not at the expense of the
old values. Tim's perceived dictum, if carried out, will only harm us,
possibly irretrievably but unless we speak up now as most contributors
have done so in varying degrees, with Tim's exception, it may still
happen, much to our, and the 'patients', detriment. I do see this
unhappy trend in our paymasters and some of their administrators,
unfortunately, whatever spin their words take on.
To paraphrase someone else, the science and the humanity of medicine are
not an either/or situation, whether applied to the patients or
ourselves, but should work together and produce a sum greater than its
parts. Both your resignation and Ahmad's are an unnecessary loss, which
could have been prevented given some working intelligence in the
administration.
Regards
George
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