It’s Christmas, so there must be an Agatha Christie adventure on the telly – or some other whodunnit, with somebody’s favourite detective tracking down the culprit and the rest of us at home\u00a0guessing at\u00a0the solution before it’s all revealed.\u00a0 Harmless fun.<\/p>\n
Today, a thank you to all those who do the detective work of a different kind.\u00a0 The GP who first spots the clues of something significant that needs more skilled investigation.\u00a0 The lab technicians reading the blood samples for familiar – or not so familiar – evidence of things that are not the way we want them to be.\u00a0 The consultants who read the\u00a0signs in the person\u00a0in front of them,\u00a0following first one\u00a0lead and then another, as many as it takes to get on the right trail and identify what’s doing harm and how it can be caught, stopped.<\/p>\n
The patient\u00a0may also have some hunches about what is happening, reading their own evidence, knowing what the scene usually looks and feels like and how it might now be out of kilter.\u00a0 A wise detective will recruit all the help\u00a0they\u00a0can get and conversations with the patient could\u00a0provide key pieces of the jigsaw and make the picture clearer.<\/p>\n
It\u00a0 doesn’t always work as it could, for whatever reasons. The system is under ridiculous pressure. Resources\u00a0 stretched beyond belief,\u00a0functioning\u00a0too often on the extra generosity and compassion of committed staff who have already given above and beyond all\u00a0reasonable\u00a0time and energy.\u00a0 And, sometimes, people simply get things wrong.<\/p>\n
Yet when this team work well with each other, listening, looking, considering and paying careful, caring attention, incredible\u00a0scenes can become evident, almost invisible agents identified, tracked, apprehended and stopped.\u00a0 Harm can be reduced and, at best, reversed and full lives restored and set free again.<\/p>\n
Those forensic detectives who can track and identify a culprit years after the crime through the tiniest samples of DNA, have their match in many of our hospitals.\u00a0 And, in many cases, they both have continually improving technology to help.<\/p>\n
Pause Agatha for a moment while we give\u00a0heartfelt thanks to the less televised detectives of health care…from the GP’s surgery\u00a0all along the pathway as far as it needs to go…they are working on it today…essential team members in the organ transplant universe.<\/p>\n
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