Tag: teamwork
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Testing times
Towards the end of the high school year in Australia, news programs cover the year 12 examinations that help decide a student’s career path, such as going to university. Students are filmed sitting at individual desks writing with pens on paper, just as I did at age 18 decades ago and just as generations of pupils…
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A little more uncertainty
Uncertainty and not being able to handle uncertainty appropriately have costs for patients and health professionals. Practising in isolation is now uncommon though there are still clinics with a solo health practitioner. Practising within a trusted team may help with uncertainty as discussing patients with colleagues and seeking different points of view draws on a…
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‘Interprofessional’ as a marker of quality
Humpty Dumpty, Lewis Carroll’s egg-shaped character, said to Alice when she was through the looking glass that when he uses a word ‘it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less’. There are many words and phrases in health care whose meanings depend on context and have no single agreed definition.…
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Is every health care team unique?
‘The patient at the centre of the team’ is a much-used phrase when discussing health care. It derives from the concept of patient-centred care for which there is no consensus or succinct definition. Does being at the centre of a team give the person team membership? In which case there is a unique team with each patient. In…
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