Cultural Competence

Doctors at the annual conference of the Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS) commented on whether doctors should drop patients whose parents refuse to let them have routine immunizations.

Staff at a geriatric hospital have been criticised for failing to respect the dignity of patients by addressing them with over-familiar terms such as ‘sweetie’ and ‘darling’.

Nurses are more likely to consider quitting their job if bullying occurs in their workplace, even if they are not bullied directly, say researchers at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, Canada.

Doctors and nurses have been up in arms over the wild inaccuracies portrayed in shows such as “ER,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “House” and “Nurse Jackie;” while actual patients, who have devoted significant time to these programs, may scratch their heads during extended hospital stays as they say, “that’s not like how it was on ‘General Hospital!’”