Being a good clinician is not enough: Doctors as employers and practices as organisations

British Journal of General Practice

Volumn 59, Issue 565, 2009, Pages 565-566

  Checkland, Kath ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SKILL; CONSULTATION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EDITORIAL; EMPLOYER; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTICE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECEPTIONISTS; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS;

EID: 69749110826     PISSN: 09601643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3399/bjgp09X453747     Document Type: Editorial

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