The GMC and value for money
OK, this will probably only be of any appeal to other registered medical practitioners like me who pay £290 a year (£390 from next month) for the privilege of being abused, spat at and vomited on, but have you seen what the GMC (General Medical Council) have just decided to spend some of that money on?
A lucky web designer has just been paid a small fortune to produce an interactive video web tutorial to teach doctors how not to be complete idiots. You can see it here. It’s very pretty and very well done, but as to the content…
In fact that’s the problem with a lot of the GMC’s guidelines. I guess they have to be actually written down somewhere, but if a doctor really needs to be told that it’s best to be polite where possible, honest, not to kill patients or to have sex with them (with or without their informed consent), then that person is probably already heading down the wrong career path.
