touches on medical establishment and effect of medical school hidden curriculum on medical students leading to very poor patient care.
Also references Steven Bolsin and his impact on the NHS…
Face value isn’t very valuable.
How do things affect the least powerful people in a system.
The story of Cassandra.
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/wilful-blindness/2926516
Wilful Blindness
Were the Murdochs ‘wilfully blind’ to the practice of phone hacking at the News of the World?
Guests
- Margaret Heffernan
- Visiting professor and entrepreneur-in-residence, University of Bath. Columnist with the Huffington Post.
Publications
- Title
- Wilful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious At Our Peril
- Author
- Margaret Heffernan
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
Credits
- Researcher
- Stephen Crittenden
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Peter Houston :
26 Jul 2011 5:51:02pm
Good segment on ‘wilful blindness’ – it reminded me of Barbara Tuchman’s ‘cognitive dissonance’. How about a follow-up on the psychological profile/dimensions of wilful blindness and related phenomena? What makes it tick?
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Mulga Mumblebrain :
27 Jul 2011 4:21:06pm
‘Willful blindness’ seems to me to be a mealy-mouthed euphemism for rank untruthfulness, a sort of ‘innocent on the grounds of insanity’ defence.
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marsha :
26 Jul 2011 8:42:39pm
And you must remember that Allan Bond had Alzheimers. I wish he’d share his cure with rest of us.
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Mulga Mumblebrain :
27 Jul 2011 4:19:29pm
A relative who worked on the News Corpse switchboard in Surry Hills years ago well remembered Rupert’s habit of periodically ringing from New York to have that day’s edition of ‘The Fundament’ (known then as The Australian) read to him, from front to back. A real ‘hands-off’ proprietor! What we witnessed in the UK Parliament was, in my opinion, a tour de farce of deception, and an Oscar performance from Rupe as a demented old codger who didn’t know what was going on. Already parts of James’ testimony have been utterly refuted by former senior News Corpse functionaries. Rupe was more cagey, and possibly has set James up, along with Rebeckah and Hinton, as ‘patsies’.
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Simon Barlow :
27 Jul 2011 4:43:30pm
I thought the piece on ‘wilful blindness’ was a segue leading from the European right-wing terror story. Like Philip expressed, we all find the rising tide of xenaphobia, and anti-Muslim sentiment in Europe (and to some extend in Australia) worrying, but aren’t we kidding ourselves? The clash of cultures, so vastly different are bound to result in this reaction, and we are ‘wilfully blind’ and courting disaster if we ignore it.
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David from Leichhardt :
28 Jul 2011 7:25:03am
Regarding the story on “wilful blindness” I was interested in the notion that many of us refuse to listen to views that we do not agree with. You and your guest chastised us for “having our heads in the sand” about the panoply of of views surrounding an issue. I think that what is missing here is the role of “discernment”.
I enjoy listening to LNL and consider myself much better informed for it. I will not listen to John Laws or Alan Jones. Should I be criticized for not giving them a fair go at informing me of their points of view? I think not.
For that matter I must tell you that when Mr Abbott is being interviewed on the news I turn down the volume because I cannot bear listening to him. Does this make me “wilfully blind” to his point of view and policies? Can you be “wilfully blind” when there is, in truth, nothing there to see?
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Lyall St Kilda :
28 Jul 2011 7:48:19pm
Mr Adams listen back to your show where you interview the biographer Manning Clark. Perhaps the scales will fall from your eyes.