Endocrine Abstracts

This will be a personal reflection by an ‘experienced’ clinician who has spent much his consultant career in clinical management including 4 years as Medical Director of a large Acute Trust. I will try and highlight the advantages and benefits of being involved in clinical management for you the Clinician, the Trust and your Patients. I will also outline some of the problems and pitfalls that can arise but I will focus on how this career choice can be developed and b...

Private Practice is not for everyone, but can complement and enhance one’s professional life - even if one has a fairly limited involvement, hence not particularly large income. I can only speak from my personal experience. When I began I benefited from valuable advice from a senior colleague on how to inform GPs in one’s locality, how to set fees at appropriate levels and when and how much increases can be made. It is vital to have an efficient secretary to ensure l...

Lawyers need doctors. When the work of the legal profession leads into areas of clinical medicine it is important that expert clinicians are there to explain and advise on the clinical issues. A good clinician can give valuable advice to the parties involved, and can also assist the courts in reaching a just and equitable conclusion.In endocrinology an expert is most commonly asked to advise in matters relating to an allegation of clinical negligence. So...