TY - JOUR T1 - Doctors' anxieties in prescribing JF - The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners JO - J R Coll Gen Pract SP - 662 LP - 665 VL - 27 IS - 184 AU - Paul Julian AU - Andrew Herxheimer Y1 - 1977/11/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/27/184/662.abstract N2 - Anxieties about prescribing were examined in two seminars for trainee general practitioners. These were caused by four main problems: inadequacies in diagnostic skill, treatment policy, understanding or experience, and anxiety about control of the treatment. Ways of reducing these anxieties, for example by sharing them with the patient, are discussed. ER -