Rotten apples

[摘要] First and last, it is to the patients and families who suffered at the hands of the abominable Harold Shipman to whom we all — professionals and policy-makers, individually and corporately — owe a duty of care. That said, there is a sense in which we doctors too are Shipman's victims. We too are experiencing the normal sequence of feelings after profound trauma: shock, denial, despair, grief, anger, guilt, blame, and (eventually) being able to move on. As with a personal bereavement, the greatest loyalty we can show the departed is to enrich our own continuing lives with their legacy.

[学科分类] 卫生学