Ron Paterson
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117 appearances
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first heard Aug 2012
last heard Aug 2012
Ron Paterson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But they're very well placed to judge empathy, to judge whether the doctor listens to them, to judge whether the doctor follows up on things.
the things that he or she says are going to happen next.
We might like our doctor to be a paragon of virtue, but we need to recognise, of course, some doctors will be better than others.
So what do I want to know for myself and for my family?
I want to know that any doctor who I go to see who is currently registered is good enough to treat me and my family, that they meet the minimum professional standards, both in terms of clinical competence and in terms of
communication skills, their ability to communicate in English, I want to know that they're good enough and that they have got that guarantee of competence that we look to the Medical Board of Australia to give us.
Absolutely, of course you get a jawless view, although a particular study in Ontario suggested that between I think about one point five percent of current doctors pose an immediate risk to patients such that they simply shouldn't be practicing tomorrow or today.
But five percent is generally used by regulators to suggest people who are rusty in some way and who could pose a risk of harm to patients who
certainly need a locked C
Well the pathologist, it came to light actually following a civil claim in New Zealand, a woman who discovered that a number of her smears had been misread and when she went public with her concerns, other women came forward and a public inquiry was called looking at the operation of our cervical screening program in New Zealand, but as high
Highlighting the fact that an older practitioner has been able to continue in cytopathology, who's got no specialist qualification, and actually nobody's checking.
There were both systems problems exposed in the screening program, but also highlighted that we were doing a very poor job of checking the competence of this practitioner who the evidence showed actually.
Actually, you might as well have tossed a coin.
You would have had as good a chance of detecting whether or not there was a problem with cytopathology that he was looking at.
The second case you refer to is a very different situation, and it's a doctor who's working as a physician at Gisbon Hospital who's got a pethidine addiction and who's previously been under the health monitoring program that many medical boards in Australia and New Zealand and other parts of the world have.
have whether checking urine samples and doing some random testing.
And one or two other people at the hospital were aware.
But it turned out that he'd lapsed.
He's calling patients in saying you need to have a colonoscopy.
And some of those procedures weren't warranted.
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