Liam Hughes > Quotes

“Like many doctors he had an ego greater than his competence.”
― Liam Hughes, Bodily Fluids: Five Decades of Blood, Phlegm and Bile on the Hospital Frontline

“the importance of experience, critical thinking and the self-confidence to be a good doctor. Call it intuition but sometimes subliminal influences produce a conviction that the perfectly reasonable diagnosis suggested by a colleague may be wrong even when their diagnosis is supported by preliminary investigations.”
― Liam Hughes, Bodily Fluids: Five Decades of Blood, Phlegm and Bile on the Hospital Frontline

“The registrar, who was very experienced and wise, immediately ordered an industrial dose of diamorphine. This was possibly my first experience of a competent and humane doctor going outside guidelines to better serve the patient’s needs.
His thoughts on when, and when not to, discontinue resuscitation bought perspective to the existing didactic protocols.”
― Liam Hughes, Bodily Fluids: Five Decades of Blood, Phlegm and Bile on the Hospital Frontline

“The registrar, who was very experienced and wise, immediately ordered an industrial dose of diamorphine. This was possibly my first experience of a competent and humane doctor going outside guidelines to better serve the patient’s needs… His thoughts on when, and when not to, discontinue resuscitation bought perspective to the existing didactic protocols.”
― Liam Hughes, Bodily Fluids: Five Decades of Blood, Phlegm and Bile on the Hospital Frontline