title: Who's my doctor today?
abstract: Clinical practice is not always user-friendly. Specialisation fragments patient care across different investigations and modes of management. Increasing hospital throughput, especially by day surgery, diminishes the time available for students and other health professionals in the team to interact with the patient and verify the appropriateness of the care plan. Patients are at a serious disadvantage in ensuring that their concerns are understood, and in negotiation of which management plan would optimise the outcomes they seek.
authors.affiliation: World health Organizatoion Regional Training Centre for Health Development, University of New South Wales, Australia. Ken.Cox@unsw.edu
authors.forename: Ken
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Cox