1. the executive veep of the AMA who fired george lundberg answered your
question for you, henry, in an interview with richard horton, editor of
the lancet:
"When I asked him what he might have done differently, Anderson said that
"Perhaps I could have earlier on conveyed to Dr Lundberg the seriousness
of my expectations and the potential results of his actions"."
2. the BMJ's site on this affair is full of interesting statements and
views (lots of them inappropriately ad hominem in my view), and the
parallels drawn by our colleagues in former eastern europe are chilling.
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/318/7177/DC1
cheers
dls
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Prof David L. Sackett
Director, NHS R&D Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine
Consultant in Medicine Editor, Evidence-Based Medicine
Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford
Level 5, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU, England
Phone: +44-(0)1865-221320 Fax: +44-(0)1865 222901
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On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Henry Barry wrote:
If an employee makes a
> mistake, preemptive termination is usually reserved for the most egregious
> of errors (murdering ones boss, betrayal of patient confidentiality,
> falsification of medical records, etc). All other errors usually warrant
> other action: collecting information about the nature of the error,
> informing the employee of the error, identification of circumstances that
> may have precipitated it, and developing a plan of action. In some cases a
> plan of monitoring, warnings, and other disciplinary/remediation action are
> considered. If serious enough, then repeated mistakes of a similar nature
> may warrant progressive disciplinary action up to and including termination.
>
>
> My point is that for less serious errors there is usually some due process.
> If this was the culmination of a series of appropriately taken, private
> disciplinary actions, then maybe the AMA acted appropriately. If not, then
> they certainly, among other things are guilty of poor labor management and
> ought to be taken to task for it.
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