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We learnt a lot from recent revelations involving Dr. H. Shipman. Given
the current situation where ''clinical excellence '' is apparently being
fostered by too many NHS White papers ,such revelations are bound to raise
eye brows.
Dr. Shipman's case represents only the tip of an iceberg.I am sure
many more such practices will come to the light as ''the authority'' is now
waking up to the reality.
I learnt that GMC is now planning to enhance the implementation of
''revalidation''. All of us at some point of time will have to prove our
worth. But is it a solution to the problem we are facing today?
Everybody else is now acting wiser.I believe we will never have any
problems with having such wise people among us.But we need to think of a
radical approach whereby such ''wise people''entrusted with such an
important job of safeguarding patient's interests will always think
ahead,take actions in advance--but never ever after death of so many
innocent people.
Everybody believes that we could have prevented a Dr. Shipman being
born,destruction of reputations of our esteemed institutions at Bristol
and Liverpool,a surgeon chopping off the wrong leg or right leg for
inappropriate reasons. My nightmare is that we would continue to reveal
more but would not ever be able to prevent one!
We need to work more closely across the boundary to prevent such
horrific things happening once again in future.
Working to prevent another Shipman case happening
Dear Editor,
We learnt a lot from recent revelations involving Dr. H. Shipman. Given
the current situation where ''clinical excellence '' is apparently being
fostered by too many NHS White papers ,such revelations are bound to raise
eye brows.
Dr. Shipman's case represents only the tip of an iceberg.I am sure
many more such practices will come to the light as ''the authority'' is now
waking up to the reality.
I learnt that GMC is now planning to enhance the implementation of
''revalidation''. All of us at some point of time will have to prove our
worth. But is it a solution to the problem we are facing today?
Everybody else is now acting wiser.I believe we will never have any
problems with having such wise people among us.But we need to think of a
radical approach whereby such ''wise people''entrusted with such an
important job of safeguarding patient's interests will always think
ahead,take actions in advance--but never ever after death of so many
innocent people.
Everybody believes that we could have prevented a Dr. Shipman being
born,destruction of reputations of our esteemed institutions at Bristol
and Liverpool,a surgeon chopping off the wrong leg or right leg for
inappropriate reasons. My nightmare is that we would continue to reveal
more but would not ever be able to prevent one!
We need to work more closely across the boundary to prevent such
horrific things happening once again in future.
Competing interests: No competing interests