ASSESSING COMMUNICATION SKILLS OF GP REGISTRARS

Much to mull over. Are we seeing the high watermark for evidence-based medicine (EBM)? Well, one of its leading lights in primary care is espousing a more intuitive-based approach. I always felt that EBM would be used as a tool for rationing and controlling rather than a way to bring scientific rigour into what we do, and it is good to have Trish Greenhalgh’s paper to back me up (sort of). My second paranoid belief is that the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) is (to quote 1066 and All That) ‘a Bad Thing’. Allyson Pollock suggests that it represents extremely dubious worth. Two paranoid beliefs backed up in one quarter? Time to come off the Largactil.

Dominic Faux

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