JUSTIFICATIONS OF PHYSICIANS’ CHOICE OF ACTION: ATTITUDES AMONG THE GENERAL PUBLIC, GPS AND ONCOLOGISTS IN SWEDEN

My friend Malcolm freely admits that he is a grumpy old man. He is a surgeon in the Black Country, and has a significant teaching commitment. ‘Newly qualified doctors’, he says ‘neither know anything, nor can do anything.’ I thought that he was just being miserable over our regular pint: looking at the South African study, he might be right. This is a wake-up call for the medical schools – you’ve got five years. Work out the competencies and knowledge needed and revise your curricula.

Dominic Faux

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