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What’s it like to be a patient as a doctor?
Experience from both ends of the stethoscope could inform research
BMJ 2024; 387 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.q2555 (Published 21 November 2024) Cite this as: BMJ 2024;387:q2555
- Steven Ford, retired general practitioner
- Haydon Bridge, UK
- stevenduncanford{at}outlook.com
Best writes about doctors becoming patients.1 My inventory of ailments is well into double figures—I had thought that getting old would take longer.
Everyone, patient and doctor, is unique. Doctors as patients can present somewhat different challenges to the general population, can find the …
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