Doctors becoming managers.

Doctors and managers

Editor—Doctors and managers obviously need to work together. To have two powerful groups not working together is likely to frustrate the efforts of both and to damage the service offered to patients. Why then is the relationship between doctors and managers often strained and currently perceived to be at a low ebb? Why is it that two groups, both protesting a desire to put patients at the centr...

Doctors, managers and politicians.

Doctors and politicians have rarely seen eye to eye on what a health service should provide and how it should be managed. The introduction of general management in 1984, while initially successful, created new fault-lines between doctors, managers and politicians that were compounded by a succession of NHS reorganisations. These changes brought politics too close to front-line management, highl...

Doctors and managers: building a new relationship.

There is a long history of problems in the relationship between doctors and managers. The reasons for this stem from the values of each group and the effect that these have on their views on a number of key aspects of healthcare and its delivery. Managers have been seen as the malign embodiment of changes in society and the instrument of the wishes of governments, which are often viewed with su...

Helping to stop doctors becoming complicit in torture.

Is imperfection becoming easier to live with for doctors?

OBJECTIVE Being involved in serious patient injury is devastating for most doctors. During the last two decades, several efforts have been launched to improve Norwegian doctors' coping with adverse events and complaints. METHODS The method involved survey to a representative sample of 1792 Norwegian doctors in 2012. The questions on adverse events and its effects were previously asked in 2000...