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From wholes to fragments to wholes – what gets lost in translation?

Les den siste artikkelen til Anna Luise Kirkengen; «From wholes to fragments to wholes – what gets lost in translation?»

The highly demanding and, in a certain sense, unique, working conditions of general practitioners (GPs) are characterized by two phenomena: First, they involve an increasing familiarity with individual patients over time, which promotes a deepening of insight. Second, they enable the GP to encounter all kinds of health problems, which in turn facilitates pattern recognition, at both individual and group levels, particularly the kind of patterns currently termed «multimorbidity.»