The Fighting for the Soul of General Practice: The Algorithm Will See You Now

Shah, Rupal/ Foell, Jens

ISBN 10: 1789388392 / ISBN 13: 9781789388398

Verlag: Intellect L & D E F A E, 2024

Beschreibung

1st edition. 250 pages. 8.25x5.75x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers __1789388392

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Fighting for the Soul of General Practice: The Algorithm Will See You Now
• Verlag: Intellect L & D E F A E
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1789388392
• ISBN-13: 9781789388398
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: Brand New

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Inhaltsangabe

This collection of stories from two practising GPs describes the reality of working within a failing and highly bureaucratic system, where there is a balancing act: regulation versus relationships; autonomy versus standard practice; algorithm versus individual attention.

We aren’t suggesting a return to a ‘better’ time. We don’t object to being bureaucrats, embedded within and accountable to the systems we are in. But we do want to consider how and with what the gap left by the old-fashioned GP has been filled. We use stories based on our experience to describe the effect of different facets of bureaucracy on our ability to maintain a nuanced, individualised approach to each patient and encounter; and to question the prominence and effect of protocol. We are interested in the way professional relationships are influenced by protocol: between and within organisations; and most importantly with patients/clients/service users..

We are accustomed nowadays to automated telephone lines, chatbots, website FAQs- the frustration of being unable to connect with another human being who will listen to our particular question and give us something other than a generic answer. The same issues that are facing society at large have changed the way in which we work as GPs and the care we give.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Rupal Shah is a GP in Inner City London and works as an Associate Dean for NHS England. As well as her many academic publications, she is a co-author of 'Our Mothers Ourselves', a memoir of mothering.

Jens Foell is a practising GP and Academic, who is deliberately choosing to work in undifferentiated primary care rather than a specialist service. He has an interest in mental health, chronic pain and health policy and was also trained in rehabilitation and social medicine.