Monday, July 21, 2008
Cash bonuses for surgeons
Plans to pay surgeons bonuses linked to their performance on the operating table have come under fire.
The largest hospital trust in the country said it plans to run a pilot scheme in which doctors are rewarded financially for operations that are particularly successful. A spokesman for the Imperial College trust would not say which operation the scheme would apply to, but he added: "It's about rewarding excellence."
Katherine Murphy, from the charity the Patients Association, said: "Patients will be horrified."
IMO: This seems to me to illustrate the fallacy of the idea that there is some genuine ultimate virtue in socialism, on the one hand (the humble working man telling the expert how to do his job - Stalin or Robert Maxwell preaching their own agricultural program or a rather stupid Hitler type trying to win a war by astrology) or capitalism on the other (as if anything we might have been more likely to expect this sort of foolish stunt from the Tories). If you don't see the point don't worry, just hope the scheme doesn't affect you. (Someone said: Does this mean that a lot of operations are going wrong, so the surgeons get a bonus if the patient doesn't die or become incapacitated as a result of the op. It is beginning to sound like that and we know the NHS is already obliged to pay a lot when they make a mistake and are found out and it is believed)
Plans to pay surgeons bonuses linked to their performance on the operating table have come under fire.
The largest hospital trust in the country said it plans to run a pilot scheme in which doctors are rewarded financially for operations that are particularly successful. A spokesman for the Imperial College trust would not say which operation the scheme would apply to, but he added: "It's about rewarding excellence."
Katherine Murphy, from the charity the Patients Association, said: "Patients will be horrified."
IMO: This seems to me to illustrate the fallacy of the idea that there is some genuine ultimate virtue in socialism, on the one hand (the humble working man telling the expert how to do his job - Stalin or Robert Maxwell preaching their own agricultural program or a rather stupid Hitler type trying to win a war by astrology) or capitalism on the other (as if anything we might have been more likely to expect this sort of foolish stunt from the Tories). If you don't see the point don't worry, just hope the scheme doesn't affect you. (Someone said: Does this mean that a lot of operations are going wrong, so the surgeons get a bonus if the patient doesn't die or become incapacitated as a result of the op. It is beginning to sound like that and we know the NHS is already obliged to pay a lot when they make a mistake and are found out and it is believed)
# posted by uv : 7:48 PM
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