When the medicines that doctors prescribe fail to produce the benefit they expect, they often
respond by varying the dose or selecting an alternative medicine. Thus doctors seem to …

People confront their doctors with three modes of unhealth-disease, illness and sickness.
Each is discussed, and the question is asked and answered as to why in this situation …

All the clinical work that formed the basis of this research was done and reported by the
members of a Training-cum-Research Seminar organized by the Department of Psychological …

The title itself indicates the dis-covery that repeat prescriptions, which are a substantial part
of the general practice scene, are not what they appear. Superficially they must be a …

Only about 50% of patients with chronic diseases take their medicines in therapeutically
effective doses. 1 Although the cost of non-compliance in illness and premature death is …

The variation in rates of referral to hospital in general practice-is such that questions about
quality and cost can no longer be avoided. In considering referral to hospital the government …

General medicine as a coherent, integrated, intellectual discipline, is no longer taught in the
modern medical school. Although the declared intentions of the curriculum are holistic and …

When change is proposed there are always alternative courses of action and any choice
between these alternatives needs to take account of their relative advantages and …

Michel Foucault quotes a Chinese encyclopaedia in which animals are divided into the
following categories:(a) belonging to the Emperor,(b) embalmed,(c) tame,(d) sucking pigs,(e) …

An outline is provided of an experimental study of the classification of mental ill-health presented
to general practitioners (GPs). Videotaped real-life consultations were assessed by 27 …