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A people's panel to hear patients' views is forcing doctors to re-evaluate their approach to medicine.
Why don't we listen to Jonathan? We listen to politicians, doctors, nurses' trade union leaders, commentators and academics ? but we don't listen to Jonathan. Jonathan is the ultimate health expert. He has had kidney failure for 30 years, has spent 14 years on dialysis and is currently on his fourth kidney transplant. If you want to know about managing kidney conditions, he's your man. Yet it has taken 30 years for someone to ask him what his views are.
Look away now because ? shock, horror ? this is a good news story. At last he and people like him have been advising the country's top health professionals and administrators on how to shape the health service of the future.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/06/nhs-england-patients-experts
Why don't we listen to Jonathan? We listen to politicians, doctors, nurses' trade union leaders, commentators and academics ? but we don't listen to Jonathan. Jonathan is the ultimate health expert. He has had kidney failure for 30 years, has spent 14 years on dialysis and is currently on his fourth kidney transplant. If you want to know about managing kidney conditions, he's your man. Yet it has taken 30 years for someone to ask him what his views are.
Look away now because ? shock, horror ? this is a good news story. At last he and people like him have been advising the country's top health professionals and administrators on how to shape the health service of the future.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/06/nhs-england-patients-experts