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Hitting your head against a brick wall : (Record no. 105278)

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ISBN 9781068629402
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Classification number WX 28
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Personal author Swinn, Michael
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Title Hitting your head against a brick wall :
Subtitle a surgeon's account of raising concerns in the NHS and why the system needs to change
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Place of publication [S.L.] :
Publisher Ravenshoe Press,
Date 2024
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Physical description xxii, 202p
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Abstract Michael Swinn describes in searing detail his torturous experience of being an NHS whistle-blower and argues powerfully for change. His journal from medical student to Consultant surgeon and head of department is chronicled followed by his struggles to persuade hospital managers to listen to his and his colleagues' serious concerns regarding patient care. By the time they were eventually proved right, much harm had sadly been done to many patients, some of whom tragically died.<br/><br/>A nightmarish, Kalfaesque world is described of seemingly interminable investigations, breathtaking incompetence, subterfuge and bluff by some managers apparently more intent on covering their own backs and limiting corporate reputational damage than protecting patients.
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Subject term NHS
9 (RLIN) 13340
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Subject term Freedom to Speak Up
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Subject term Medical biographies
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    National Library of Medicine     Stenhouse Library (Kingston Hospital) Stenhouse Library (Kingston Hospital) Shelves 24/09/2024 Tomlinsons 9.99 1 WX 28 ST00536 12/12/2024 13/11/2024 9.99 24/09/2024 Book