A junior doctor who was accused of wrongly telling a patient that he had cancer has been exonerated after a medical practitioners tribunal found that the patient had become flustered at the mention of the word “cancer” and misunderstood the doctor’s comments. Richard Schofield, who qualified in 2011, waited nearly three years for his hearing, only for the General Medical Council’s case against him to swiftly unravel. The two expert witnesses, one for the GMC and one for Schofield, wrote in a joint statement, “The experts agree that in their experience it is common for patients of all ages, when faced with ‘bad’ news (including, for example, the possibility that they may have cancer), to become less receptive to receiving information. Both experts have witnessed this phenomenon in their working lives.” Schofield, …

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患者“误记”事件发生后，初级医生被清除了不当行为

一名初级医生被指控错误地告诉患者他患有癌症，在医生执业法庭发现该患者因提及“癌症”一词而变得心慌并误解了医生的评论后被免除责任。理查德·斯科菲尔德（Richard Schofield）于2011年取得参赛资格，他等待了近三年的聆讯时间，只是因为美国通用医学委员会（General Medical Council）提起的针对他的案子才得以迅速解决。两位专家证人，一位代表GMC，一位代表Schofield，在一份联合声明中写道：“专家们同意，根据他们的经验，各个年龄段的患者在面对“坏”消息（包括例如，他们可能患有癌症的可能性），以减少接受信息的能力。两位专家在他们的工作生活中都目睹了这种现象。” 斯科菲尔德，……