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Fire down below

2002; BMJ; Volume: 324; Issue: 7334 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1136/bmj.324.7334.433/a

0959-8138

James Drife,

Healthcare Systems and Challenges

Someone somewhere must have been the first to compare reorganising the NHS with rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic . The joke does not bear analysis—the health service is not about to capsize—but “rearranging the deckchairs” entered the language because it catches the real feeling in the engine room about activities on the bridge. The only people who go up and down the ladder between the two are doctors. A few of us spend part …