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eMJA: Professional discretion, courtesy and plain good manners: an anecdotal and personal view While I felt very strongly about its contents, I thought it would provide a little amusement among the scientific works at the meeting of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists. To my amazement, it struck a chord with many delegates — obviously, I was not alone in seething about discourtesy, which seemed rife, between professional colleagues. Most doctors (and their medical indemnity organisations) agree that patient rudeness and aggression are an increasing problem, and there is discussion on strategies to deal with these. Insufficiently debated is what I believe to be an increasing trend to discourtesy between referring clinicians and radiologists and between radiological colleagues. There are international and Australian codes of ethics regarding behaviour between colleagues.1-3 However, my literature search for references to practical day-to-day courtesy between colleagues revealed mainly concerns as to whether it was polite to bill fellow practitioners for services rendered!4 It would be easy to dismiss interprofessional rudeness as a facet of the decline in good manners in the general community. Full Article: http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/183_11_051205/nut10065_fm.html |
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