July 21, 2008
WELL, THEY ARE SURGEONS...:
Surgeons will get 'survival bonus' every time they save a patient's life (David Derbyshire, 21st July 2008, Daily Mail)
Britain's largest hospital trust is planning to pay doctors every time a patient survives the operating table or leaves hospital without picking up an infection.
...so they may need to be reminded that the patient's life matters... Posted by Orrin Judd at July 21, 2008 9:54 AM
OTOH, this may lead surgeons to refuse to operate on the most ill, or to perform trivial operations on the healthy...
Posted by: Mike Earl at July 21, 2008 11:16 AMThe problem with socialism is that they only care about money!
Posted by: Andrew X at July 21, 2008 11:16 AM
England is becoming a entire series of Monty Python sketches. What's next, training the police to fight with the banana and the anvil.
Posted by: narciso at July 21, 2008 10:34 AM