Tag: healthcare professionals
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Health professionals’ role in the banning of lethal autonomous weapons
This is a great episode from the Future of Life Institute, on the topic of banning lethal autonomous weapons. You may wonder, what on earth do lethal autonomous weapons have to do with health professionals? I wondered the same thing until I was reminded of the role that physios play in the rehabilitation of landmine…
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Continuing professional development (CPD)
It’s our responsibility as healthcare professionals to keep up to date with our professional development in terms of maintaining clinical skills, improving knowledge and many other aspects of our practice. Unfortunately, due to host of problems, it’s often difficult to stay current and to accumulate the required number of points. One option is to sign…
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To err is human: building a safer health system (free book)
While typing up my notes from the SAAHE conference (see previous post), I came across To err is human: building a safer health system, a book that had been mentioned by one of the keynote speakers. It looks at the medical community’s historically poor track record on accepting responsibility for mistakes made by healthcare professionals…