Have We Lost Sight Of Our Patients & Their Problems?

Psst. If your boss won’t invest in training you in Specification By Example or Test-Driven Development, I’m running out-of-hours workshops in May specifically for self-funding learners. £99 + UK VAT. Many of us pretend that software releases are an end in themselves – that shipping what we said we would means success. We give the medicine to the patient, and that’s the end of the treatment.Hopefully your doctor isn’t quite so naïve. The treatment doesn’t end when the pharmacist fills the prescription, or even when the patient takes the medicine.There’s the little matter of the effect of the medicine on the patient – is it actually working? Does their blood pressure go down? Does their heart rhythm stabilise? Is the medicine producing the desired outcome?In the UK, if you test positive for any one of three conditions – high blood pressure, Type 2 diabetes or high cholesterol – you’ll be tested for the other two. Bad things tend to come in threes.If it turns out you’ve got the full set,…