ArticleJournal of the Royal Society of Medicine2008
The views of doctors on their working lives: a qualitative study.
Article in Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Doctors on status and respect: a qualitative study.Journal of bioethical inquiry · 2013Article
- Pleasure in medical practice.Medicine, health care, and philosophy · 2012Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo describe doctors' views on, and responses to, their professional working lives in the UK National Health Service (NHS).
designQualitative study using semi structured interviews. Setting Two district hospitals and primary care settings in the North of England.
participantsFifty-two doctors participated in the study--47 worked in hospital and five worked in general practice.
main outcome measuresQualitative information regarding doctors' views on their working lives.
resultsThe study provided insights into the views of their working lives of a sample of doctors in the NHS. Feelings they articulated contained a number of ambivalences. Feelings about the future were coloured by concerns about the impact of regulatory changes and processes of modernization on the experiential knowledge of doctors.
conclusionsThese insights into doctors' views of their working lives might usefully inform those involved in the planning and overseeing of changes to health service structures and systems.
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