A lack of procedural safeguards can lead to overly broad, disproportionate and unreasonable exercises of power in public decision making—including hospitals.
Bird flu poses a massive threat, and the potential for a catastrophic new pandemic is imminent. We still have a chance to stop a possible humanitarian disaster, but only if we get to work urgently, carefully and aggressively.
I work in a pharmacy where medication reviews are scheduled in advance between a patient and a pharmacist. The pharmacist spends time, one-on-one, with the patient to go through everything.
Having had the privilege to re-write so many patients epilogues through his care, Dr. Hector Baillie reflects on the complicated task of creating his own.