Scandinavian journal of primary health care
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Scand J Prim Health Care · Dec 1998
"Feeling your large intestines a bit bound": clinical interaction--talk and gaze.
To explore the relationship between observation and talk in the clinical encounter, using the medical gaze as a key metaphor. ⋯ Clinical medicine is talk and gaze as an integral whole. Doctors not only make a diagnosis, but also structure a clinical reality.
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Scand J Prim Health Care · Dec 1998
Physicians as gatekeepers: will they contribute to restrict disability benefits?
To study how general practitioners (GPs), specialists, and National Insurance Administration (NIA) medical consultants reacted to the narrowed eligibility criteria for disability benefits in Norway from 1991. ⋯ GPs are willing to act as gatekeepers for social insurance benefits for their patients, also when eligibility criteria become restricted.