Medical privacy

[alan hassey]

David
You are right that medicine has a lot of ground to recover. Arrogance and
communications failures are mostly to blame & the regulatory authorities
must take their share of the fallout. However, it is in all our interests to
see the profession rebuilt - otherwise the current recruitment & retention
problems will cause severe problems in the years ahead & you can't tar us
all with the same brush. A disillusioned & demoralised profession is in
no-one's best interests. It's easy to criticise - and we probably deserve
it - but what's needed are people who can be constructively critical & help
rebuild trust through a new set of relationships based on consent and
openness. (If only...)

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Dr Alan Hassey (PGP Key ID:0x161BB451)
Fisher Medical Centre (Research Unit)
RCGP Health Informatics Standing Group
alan.hassey@btinternet.com
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The problem is that for respect to be earned people have to be respectable.
I think that the
medical bunch have already lost respect due to their arrogant and
patronising attitude. I also
think that it will be decades, if ever, before they regain this. Instead of
blaming the public, which
was the impression given after a number of scandals, they should ponder on
the reasons people
don't trust them any more.

There is much good done in medical circles. The problem is the failure to
deal with those who
are incompetent and the failure to curb the excesses of the master race
tendency (which a lot of
research is concerned with).


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 David Hansen