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I write mostly about what happens to dentists and the business of dentistry…but let’s not forget that the UK is a pretty lousy place for a lot of professions at the moment, especially the ones that put patient care at their core.
This from the BMJ via reestheskin
“Why do doctors feel the need to do this? A study in The BMJ in 2015 suggested that there is an association between increased defensive practice and a reduced likelihood of being involved in litigation.2 One might conclude that defensive practice is a logical behaviour in the face of a culture that leads to doctors being fearful of the consequences of making an error or even of a known adverse outcome.”
“No doctor sets out to practise defensively, but a system has been created where this is inevitable. The GMC acknowledges that medicine has become more defensive.3 Doctors often lack confidence in the fairness and competence of investigations and continue to see the GMC as threatening.”
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Stephen Hawking
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Chicken Licken says the sky has fallen – #94
Lee Gilbert’s thoughts on GDPR,
“It seems every type of company from Accountants, HR Advisory firms, Law Practices, IT companies, Greengrocers and Candle Stick makers… have been jumping on the band wagon of running seminar’s on the subject without truly understanding (or having read in some cases!) the Regulation and its subsequent Recitals.”
It’s Regulation 2016/679. It’s 88 pages long and there are 173 Recitals…. by the way.
Some people say complying with GDPR requires extensive planning and in some cases, a complete change in processes and procedures.
The reality, for most, is the change is minuscule.
It should not be ignored but the changes and updates required are so small you could argue they merely constitute the best practice many organisations have been applying for some time.
Put simply, GDPR is designed to clean up some poor practices conducted by the few. It is the many though who are feeling the brunt.
Cynical? Moi?
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John Le Carre in an interview in the New York Times with Mel Gubben –
January 7th 2004, quoted in Spione
I wonder what he would say now?
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