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Doctors' values, resilience and professionalism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Richard Williams
Richard Williams*
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Welsh Institute for Health and Social Care, University of Glamorgan, and Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Gwent Healthcare NHS Trust; Ty Bryn, St Cadoc's Hospital, Lodge Road, Caerleon, Newport, South Wales NP18 3 XQ, UK, email rjwwilli@glam.ac.uk
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In 2001, Richard Smith, then editor of the BMJ, asked why doctors were so unhappy. He provoked a huge international response. The suggested reasons included: changes in the social structures of work; the demographic shift and difficulties in the recruitment and retention of staff; the replacement of trust with accountability; changes in relationships with people and bodies that are responsible for policy and practice; and negative media reporting.

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International Psychiatry , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , January 2007 , pp. 21 - 23
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