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Willingness of general practitioners to participate in enhanced primary care discharge care planning
Author(s) -
Preen David B,
Bailey Belinda E S,
Wright Alan
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2006.tb00129.x
Subject(s) - wright , population , library science , health care , general hospital , citation , population health , primary care , medicine , gerontology , sociology , psychology , family medicine , history , political science , demography , art history , computer science , law
Australia-wide, doctors are returning to work after a break, perhaps even to circumstances similar to those so poignantly captured above: changing schedules to better meet the incessant demands of patients, reams of paperwork, escalating red tape and endless requests to serve on this or that committee. Indeed, their lives are subsumed by service to others before self. “No worries”, many say, “we are task-oriented, compulsive and perfectionists. We can cope”.