Doctors on the Edge - General Practitioners, Health and Learning in the Inner-city (Paperback)

This title focuses on the work, well-being and lives of doctors during a period of constant change and crisis in the National Health Service and of growing anxiety about levels of clinical competence and accountability. The alarming number of well-publicized 'failures' by medics - at the Royal Bristol Children's Hospital, the Kent and Canterbury Hospital, for instance, and the appalling breach of trust by Dr Harold Shipman -the Manchester General Practitioner found guilty of murdering 15 patients - has led to a Government enquiry into the accountability of the profession. All, it seems, is far from well among medics.;The text shows how GPs are responding to their changing roles in a changing society; and how such responses may be understood in a context of whole life histories as well as within the norms of medical culture. Doctors, as a profession, have tended, for many reasons, to hide behind a professional curtain in what can be a very 'male' world. Some matters - surrounding the emotional well-being of doctors - are hard for doctors to talk about in this world where, too often, they have been taught to cope, like 'good men should'. The book reveals the emotional problems doctor

General

Imprint:	Free Association Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2001
First published:	October 2000
Authors:	Linden West
Dimensions:	180 x 161 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	340
ISBN-13:	978-1-85343-522-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > General Books > Medicine > General issues > Health systems & services > General practice Promotions
LSN:	1-85343-522-8
Barcode:	9781853435225

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