Speaking power to suffering – BJGP Life

Speaking power to suffering – BJGP Life

Ben Hoban is a GP in Exeter. Our local hospital has recently started including a glossary of technical terms in letters to patients, presumably to make it easier for busy clinicians to communicate with people who are not healthcare professionals. In the old days, of course, specialists would write instead to GPs, who acted as their interpreters. We would consider this high-handed now, both on the basis that patients are entitled to be addressed …