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Secrets and Gossip—Staff Communication

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Peter Bruggen ,
Barbara Brilliant  and
Suzanne Ide
Peter Bruggen
Affiliation:
Hill End Adolescent Unit, Hill End Hospital, St Albans, Herts
Barbara Brilliant
Affiliation:
Hill End Adolescent Unit, Hill End Hospital, St Albans, Herts
Suzanne Ide
Affiliation:
Hill End Adolescent Unit, Hill End Hospital, St Albans, Herts
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We get in a muddle about responsibility and in our communications. Doctors are not the only ones who can discharge patients from hospital—patients can do that themselves (Teeling-Smith, 1979) and the myths about medical responsibility (as if patients are not responsible for themselves) exacerbate feelings of inequality. We are responsible for ourselves and our work; not for our patients or colleagues, much as we may care for them.

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Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists , Volume 6 , Issue 7 , July 1982 , pp. 117 - 119
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