Importance of Data
Importance of Data
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数据的重要性
DOI:
10.1136/bmj.3.5614.363-b
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发表时间:
1968
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通讯作者:
W. J. Martin
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作者:
W. J. Martin
Whole-time professors of medicine are often depicted as living in ivory towers utterly divorced from reality and completely lacking in clinical judgement, common sense, or compassion. Possibly there is sometimes a little fire to this smoke and it is, of course, regrettable that most medical academicians nowadays have never had the experience of looking after patients in their own homes. Professor Butterfield has, however, done much to refute the common caricature of the professorial clinical scientist, for though he himself is one of them of no mean repute he is also rich in medical philosophy, scholarship, charm, common sense, and humanitarianism. These attributes are exemplified in his Rock Carling Monograph of 1968 in which he reviews the vast organization built up in recent years in this country to combat its sickness and-to a much lesser extent-to encourage its health. Though further considerable financial resources are unlikely to become available to the Health Service in the near future, he points out that there is yet much which can be done to improve its efficiency from those already available. To do this he has enumerated certain priorities which his studies-conducted at various times from Guy's Hospital in Bermondsey, Bedford, and Thamesmead-have suggested are necessary to help patients and morale in the National Health Service. Professor Butterfield outlines the reasonably simple but effective measures which positive health education can initiate to prevent or postpone the onset of degenerative and metabolic disease, and the steps required to be taken to reorganize our hospitals and their outpatient services to enable them to cope with modem conditions. Finally he makes a plea that the executive in charge of one of the biggest corporations in this country employing some 400,000 people-the Minister of Healthshould be a permanent member of the Cabinet. This thoughtful series of essays will appeal to all those interested in the health services of the country. DERRICK DUNLOP.