Skilling Up to Do Data: Whose Role, Whose Responsibility, Whose Career?

Skilling Up to Do Data: Whose Role, Whose Responsibility, Whose Career?

What are the roles necessary to effective data management and what kinds of expertise are needed by the researchers and data specialists who are filling those roles? These questions were posed at a workshop of data creators and curators whose delegates challenged the DCC and RIN to identify the training needs and career opportunities for the broad cohort that finds itself working in data manage...

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Apology for errors: whose responsibility?

When things go wrong during a medical procedure, patients' expectations are fairly straightforward: They expect an explanation of what happened, an apology if an error was made, and assurance that something will be done to prevent it from happening to another patient. Patients have a right to full disclosure; it is also therapeutic in relieving their anxiety. But if they have been harmed by our...

Well woman care: whose responsibility?

GENERAL practice primary care teams are taking more lJresponsibility for preventive medicine and there is evidence that patients welcome health promotion activities on the part of their general practitioner. ' Already, in some districts, as little as 5% of pre-school child health services are provided by clinical medical officers2 and, although opinions about this vary, there is general agreeme...

Care of Diabetes: Whose Responsibility?

SIR,-Many of the criticisms that Dr Jules Older levels against religious fundamentalists are undoubtedly justified (17 November, p 1359). He does, however, appear to run the risk of throwing out the baby with the bath water. Excessive and often misguided zeal is a characteristic of youth, and this is often accompanied by a narrow perspective of life, which is unduly critical of the views of oth...