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A champion‐driven pathway towards quality improvement in the medical management of osteoporotic fractures
Author(s) -
Lu Tim YuTing,
Pink Jennifer A,
Whitten Lauren E,
Hill Catherine L,
Adams Robert J,
Gibb Catherine
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2006.tb00595.x
Subject(s) - champion , quality management , quality (philosophy) , medicine , intensive care medicine , business , engineering , operations management , management system , political science , philosophy , epistemology , law
With the increasing involvement of non-medically qualified professionals (many with PhDs) in health care, patients are confused about who, of the Doctor, Mister or Miss, is actually their doctor. The late Hugh Phillips, past president of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, labelled the use of Mister as old tribalism and anachronistic. He argued for surgeons to return to the title of Doctor, noting: “There has been concern recently about who people are in the health service — who is actually treating you? It is not always absolutely clear to the patient, I suspect, and it is not even clear as to whether someone is a doctor.” Whether UK surgeons will heed this advice has yet to be resolved.