GP
Stronger leadership from doctors will encourage renaissance in medicine
By Royal College of General Practitioners, UK
May 17, 2005, 18:06

Stronger leadership from doctors will encourage a renaissance in the medical profession the Chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), Dr Mayur Lakhani, will suggest in an address to the Trinity Medical Society, Oxford.

Dr Lakhani will suggest that the profession has to some extent lost its way recently with a leadership vacuum that has allowed a culture of managerial and state dominated regulation. While commending students for choosing medicine as a career option, Dr Lakhani will argue that doctors have become tamed by political change and as a result there is low morale in the medical profession world wide.

�There are some who say that the profession does not have a solution to its problems� Dr Lakhani will say �but I disagree and believe that it is distinctly possible to bring about a renewal of professionalism. What we need is a determination to espouse the cause of patient centredness and partnerships with patients.

The Medical Royal Colleges have a particularly important role to play in bringing about a renaissance in medicine and it is essential that the profession retains a strong voice in standard setting, Dr Lakhani will assert.

�I am proud to be a doctor and love my profession. A strong profession is important for society. I am very pleased that so many students want to do medicine as a career. Future doctors would do well by embracing high standards and patient centeredness as the bedrock of a new professionalism.�

All rights reserved by www.rxpgnews.com