Bacon scraps in the Oxford Mail
Shame on the Oxford Mail. It used to be a good local paper when I lived there. Mind you, in those days, so did the Times. It was a long time ago. They have just given Neil Bacon an advertorial for his new website. Disgraceful! Don't they have any news to report? Spot all the (as Winston used to say) "terminological inexactitudes".
"The majority of doctors (have been) very supportive"
Neil Bacon
It's all here, with some annotations
Labels: Baconshit, Neil Bacon
2 Comments:
I've been wondering why I find this so distasteful. Partly, I just wouldn't like it if anyone could write anonymous comments about me, which anyone (eg my mother, my children, my colleagues) could read. Luckily no-one cares about my profession that much. Also getting random people to comment will probably tend to attract people with strong feelings and they may not be representative, for any real purpose it seems impossible that this would produce useful information. I have had a lot to do with the NHS due to serious illness in the family and I have met many people who were very angry with particular doctors at various points - this was not always fair (I've done it myself) - you are under a lot of stress and misjudge and overreact very easily. Being able to attack them publicly by name in this situation might be something you would regret later. And it seems undignified somehow, and silly - how would I give a percentage to communication skills and trustworthiness anyway.
Maybe it could occasionally highlight problems but it might be better to make existing channels easier to access and understand. And I am beginning to be irritated that the 'patients association' speaks for me, who are they?
Maybe there are good points to the idea but at the moment I can't think of them.
S
Most papers today suck. Theyre all the same nowadays.
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