SOC244H1 Chapter Notes -Gien
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Normal rubbish don"t think its important for the exam . This paper describes typifications of good and bad patients made by staff working in 3 english hospitals. Casualty departments recognized as one of the most problematic areas of the nhs. Doctors don"t want to work there (poor working conditions, or absence of a career structure)and those that do are considered of poorer quality . In general two broad categories were used to evaluate patients: good or interesting, and bad or rubbish. Good patients were decribed almost entirely in terms of their medical characteristics, either in terms of the symptoms or the causes of the injury. Good cases were head injuries, or cardiac arrests, or a stove-in chest; or they were road traffic accidents. Patients who came in requiring life or death decisions or if the patient stretched the resources of the department) While the category of the good patients is one i have in part constructed from comments about.
