A New Kind of Doctor
CONTENTS Foreword 1 Points of departure 2 Liberal retreat 3 Origins and limits of medical professionalism …
1 Origins of the National Health Service
“I need not remind you that what we get into scrapes for is not for …
The Welsh NHS has much to teach the English
The Welsh created the NHS, modelled on miners’ mutual aid schemes. They have so far …
A New Kind of Doctor 10 A New Social Alliance
This book has sought to develop six features of medical professionalism, alternative to those of …
A New Kind of Doctor 9 The Necessity Of Community
No word has been more fashionable over the past twenty years than ‘community’; Community Care, …
A New Kind of Doctor 8 Accountability For And To Groups
Doctors are rarely accountable for the average quality of their work in terms of outcome. …
A New Kind of Doctor 7 Accountability For and To Individuals
Within the Osier paradigm, doctors have generally accepted accountability in two directions; to their professional …
A New Kind of Doctor 6 A CRISIS OF ACCOUNTABILITY
Though most thoughtful and well-informed GPs now accept the need for more staff, equipment and …
A New Kind of Doctor 5 Measurement of Omission
When doctors began to measure their work, they measured what they saw and did, not …
A New Kind of Doctor 4 New Ideas in Old Structures
The NHS revolutionized the distribution, staffing, equipment, planning and administration of hospitals by nationalizing them …
A New Kind of Doctor 3 Origins And Limits Of Medical Professionalism
If positive answers to the defeatism of the Liberal Critique can only be found beyond …
A New Kind of Doctor 2 Liberal Retreat
The late 1960s was a time of ideological confusion when the idea of social progress …