At the end of this article by Edmund Hey entitled “Accountability” (13 April, p 925) the author unfortunately said the opposite of what he had intended to say. The final three sentences should read: “The call for professionals to be held accountable in public for their care of patients is balanced by a simultaneous expectation that all the details of that care should remain confidential. It is seldom possible to have both [not “one without the other”]. Perhaps the public need to decide which they want.”
. 2002 Jun 15;324(7351):1443.