Ten Commandments for patient-centred treatment

Ten Commandments for patient-centred treatment

1. Thou shalt have no aim except to help patients, according to the goals they wish to achieve When deciding on a treatment, the first diagnosis you need to reach is about the nature of the illness. The second diagnosis you need concerns what the individual would like to achieve.1 Both are of equal importance and this is as true in simple one-off encounters as in complex lifelong illness. But t...

The Ten Commandments.

Ten commandments for implementing clinical information systems.

Ten commandments of enzymology, amended.

Reflections on advances and retreats in biochemistry have, over the years, generated several maxims. The late Efraim Racker’s ‘don’t waste clean thinking on dirty enzymes’ has been one of the most durable. On the occasion of a lecture in Jerusalem a decade ago, I framed a list of the ten ‘best’ maxims as ‘commandments’, which were later published as a ‘Guest Commentary’ in the Journal of Bacter...

Ten Commandments for the resilient practitioner.

INTRODUCTION The tipping point that led to this article being written was the publication in the Lancet of data unequivocally demonstrating the remarkable increase in pressure in the last few years on primary care and particularly on GPs.1 There have been other times when pressure on GPs has been notable — the new GP contract of 2004 was a response to similar circumstances. But with resources f...