http://freedomforall.net/humanitarian-plea-can-you-or-someone-you-know-help/ This is home to the writings of Matthew, The Irreverent Buddhist. I write from a Buddhist perspective on subjects ranging from the deeply personal to the thoroughly political. Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:34:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 http://freedomforall.net/humanitarian-plea-can-you-or-someone-you-know-help/#comment-12965 Tue, 08 May 2007 12:41:06 +0000 http://freedomforall.net/humanitarian-plea-can-you-or-someone-you-know-help/#comment-12965 [...] Power without accountability is exactly why what I have written below is being allowed to happen - not just to me but throughout the health service. You may find it hard to believe but that does not make a word of it untrue. “Consultants have power without accountability”. Read that again it is frightening. earlier I wrote “It is time doctors stopped protecting each other and pretending they are godlike, admitted their faults and engaged patients as equals. Then physical symptoms might not be ignored and lives might not needlessly be ruined.” This is the sort of damage that power without accountability leads to. [...] […] Power without accountability is exactly why what I have written below is being allowed to happen - not just to me but throughout the health service. You may find it hard to believe but that does not make a word of it untrue. “Consultants have power without accountability”. Read that again it is frightening. earlier I wrote “It is time doctors stopped protecting each other and pretending they are godlike, admitted their faults and engaged patients as equals. Then physical symptoms might not be ignored and lives might not needlessly be ruined.” This is the sort of damage that power without accountability leads to. […]

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