Also when you analyse in detail ‘clinical decisions’ as many researchers have, often very little clinical about them. Repeated studies have shown the characteristics of the doctor are more influential on outcome than the patient’s clinical situation.
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Replying to @4AdsthePoet @iceman_ex and
that 'characteristics of the doctor' statement certainly hits home as does assessment of mum's clinical situation - the PM for mum highlighted an issue where the trust had been wrong that affected their thinking of mum's overall picture. Never investigated.
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Replying to @katemasters67 @iceman_ex and
Medics acknowledge this in research and between themselves, but present a public face of Dr’s decisions being scientific & objective. Also research show disagreements between Drs as to right action, common place.
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Replying to @4AdsthePoet @iceman_ex and
when you sit in court and defence that comes up time&time again is 'she was dying anyway' to a claim of non communication your faith in scientific evaluation in medicine goes out the window. We always thought she was written off because of cancer, nothing has changed that for me
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Replying to @katemasters67 @iceman_ex and
‘She was dying anyway’ should never be the answer. The question should be BUT FOR the
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Replying to @4AdsthePoet @iceman_ex and
We had criminal and civil cases. The criminal judge's thinking was that if anyone is responsible for reducing someone's life even by a minute they must be held to account. in this case that was the driver of the car who never deviated from taking responsibility for the accident
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Replying to @katemasters67 @4AdsthePoet and
In stark contrast to the tone of debate on Twitter right now. It honestly feels like exceptionalism gone mad sometimes. But when criminal law starts being targeted with a view to bending it to suit the will of clinicians, I think we risk entering a dark phase.
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Replying to @C7RKY @4AdsthePoet and
I agree. I'm interested to see what the TOR are for this review, who will be asked for their opinion etc. I have the same panicky feeling I did at Mr Hunt's attempts at expanding the safe space from HSIB to the whole of the health service.
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Replying to @katemasters67 @4AdsthePoet and
Candour, or rather the utter lack of it, is at the heart of all this. I'm not confident this review is going to be established with a view to improving candour, so much as it is to ensuring doctors can't be prosecuted. And all without a transcript to know what they're defending.
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Replying to @C7RKY @katemasters67 and
Appointing a medic to lead the investigation is not a good start.
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Far from it. Well the child sex abuse inquiry went through a few chairs once people started looking more closely. Let's see where this goes...
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