Should general practitioners call patients by their first names?
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Should general practitioners call patients by their first names?
OBJECTIVE To assess the acceptability to patients of the use of patients' first names by doctors and doctors' first names by patients in general practice. DESIGN An administered questionnaire survey. SETTING 5 General practices in Lothian. PATIENTS 475 Patients consulting 30 general practitioners. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Response by patients to questionnaire on attitude to use of first nam...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1990
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.301.6755.795