Shortly after I came back from San Diego, my unit was
visited by the accreditation group sent by the Hospital Authority.
Our friends outside the solar system call it gap analysis – a visit that aims to
identify areas of deficiency so that we could improve before the real
accreditation visit takes place. In layman’s language, we call it rehearsal or
mock examination. (Yes, I am more than ever amazed with the capability of
extra-terrestrials. By giving a new and fancy name to an old concept, there
really seems something fresh and different. What’s
in a name?)
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Of course, as you would expect, the best way that I could
contribute to this gap analysis is not to appear at all. I was more than happy
to this suggestion. Seriously I have an eternal difficulty to make the head or
tail of the entire business. For example, why should medical wards put up the
number of appreciation and complaint
as the key performance index? As a practising physician, I believe – for
example – the number of unwitnessed cardiac arrest being far more important.
PS. By coincidence I watched the movie Prometheus on my flight back Hong Kong, and am having
acute-on-chronic panic attack to aliens recently.
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