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QJM Advance Access originally published online on February 21, 2007
QJM 2007 100(4):251-252; doi:10.1093/qjmed/hcm011
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Only obeying orders

John Launer

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For part of the week, I work as a consultant on a clinical team that is currently ‘overperforming’ on one of its local service contracts. Overperformance really just means that we have done more work than predicted, so telling us that we have overperformed is a bit like saying that the sun has overperformed this week because the weather forecast said that it would rain. All the same, we have been asked to cut down on our work for the remainder of the financial . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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