Posted on 11/18/2009 11:20:00 AM PST by markomalley
Dr Otto Chan told a hearing in East London that some doctors at the Royal London Hospital were ''exposed'' to procedures that they were not trained for.
He said: ''The department was going rapidly backwards, I had real serious concerns about patient care in relation to the training programme.
''The junior staff in our department were doing too much unsupervised work.''
Dr Chan added: ''The juniors were being exposed to procedures that they were clearly not trained to do.''
The radiologist said junior doctors were sometimes given notes on how to do a procedure and ''being told to go and practise it on a patient.''
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The 52-year-old claims he was sacked from his post at the Royal London in 2006 for whistle-blowing.
He claims he lost his job after saying publicly that X-ray files and scans belonging to thousands of patients were dumped unchecked in boxes
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
I thought ALL doctors did that anyway!.............
Sure... “See one, Do one, Teach one...”
Seeing one done makes you a subject matter expert.
Doing one makes you a medical expert.
Teaching one makes you an expert authority.
Did you ever see the movie “The Patient”, where a cold-hearted doctor gets cancer and has to go thru the same system he set up?..........
or “The End”.
Almost.
It was “The Doctor” (1991) With William Hurt.
Great perspective.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101746/
Wrong movie, It was “The Doctor” with William Hurt..........
It's already been here once "thanks" to HMOs. I was the "practice" subject a couple of times with the old "see one, do one, teach one" routine. I should have sued for malpractice, and will if it ever happens again.
Well, it is called the “Practice of Medicine”.
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