Wednesday, June 09, 2004
Something More Good in Denmark
The following comes from Dr. Claus Curdt-Christiansen, a friend since Saudi Arabia days and currently Chief Medical Officer of the International Civil Aviation Organization, a UN agency based in Montreal.
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I may have a fraction of an additional comment as to the supervision of doctors in private practice: no doctor wants to supervise other doctors and report on him/her to the authority - what happens in Denmark (where private practice is the rule) is to some extent solving the problem. More and more doctors get together in groups and operate "group clinics" thus sharing the cost of receptionists, secretaries, nurses and often very expensive equipment. When the doctors in such a group notice than one of their colleagues perform sub standard they either set him right or get rid of him. Doctors in "solo" practice are quite few nowadays - and mostly either old or odd. My advice to patients would be to avoid soloists and to go to a group clinic. We do (in Denmark) also have a "medical board for patients" where unhappy patients can complain about bad treatment. Their cases are printed in the Medical Journal which I read every week. By far the most frequent complaint is that the doctor was rude (!)
The following comes from Dr. Claus Curdt-Christiansen, a friend since Saudi Arabia days and currently Chief Medical Officer of the International Civil Aviation Organization, a UN agency based in Montreal.
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I may have a fraction of an additional comment as to the supervision of doctors in private practice: no doctor wants to supervise other doctors and report on him/her to the authority - what happens in Denmark (where private practice is the rule) is to some extent solving the problem. More and more doctors get together in groups and operate "group clinics" thus sharing the cost of receptionists, secretaries, nurses and often very expensive equipment. When the doctors in such a group notice than one of their colleagues perform sub standard they either set him right or get rid of him. Doctors in "solo" practice are quite few nowadays - and mostly either old or odd. My advice to patients would be to avoid soloists and to go to a group clinic. We do (in Denmark) also have a "medical board for patients" where unhappy patients can complain about bad treatment. Their cases are printed in the Medical Journal which I read every week. By far the most frequent complaint is that the doctor was rude (!)
