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That diagnosis is sometimes not "done well" — for example, after a perfunctory evaluation — argues for reforming our health care system, not castigating psychiatry.
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USAID performs perfunctory annual program evaluations that are self-serving and intended to show that U.S. tax dollars are actually doing good in Ethiopia.
Most evaluations are perfunctory — a drive-by classroom observation by a vice principal — and hearings to prove incompetence can be long and costly.
However, such participatory evaluations are currently very limited and perfunctory in the country, usually involving simply informing or placating the stakeholders.
In patients with a greater chronic disease burden, such a perfunctory pre-anesthetic assessment does not permit the more comprehensive evaluation, or as indicated, the consultation, which our PACT Clinic affords.
These examples were sparse, and institutional evaluation efforts were often described as poorly developed or even perfunctory" (Laursen et al., 2010, p. 176).
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