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Q J Med 2002; 95: 839-840
© 2002 Association of Physicians

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Close encounters

John Launer

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I sometimes get asked to run seminars on primary care for other professions, particularly social workers and psychologists. Like some hospital doctors, people in these professions can have odd ideas of what primary care is and does, and even odder stereotypes about GPs. One of the ways I tackle these stereotypes is to ask seminar members to get into pairs and tell each other about recent encounters with GPs. I ask them to exchange one story about a professional encounter, followed by one story about a personal encounter when they have visited GPs' surgeries as . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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