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Christensen, Fetters, and Green (2005) report their use of Cognitive Task Analysis (Militello & Hutton, 1998) to describe 18 individual physicians’ ways of organizing their visits with patients. One of their findings is wonderful, but another just makes me wonder.
Through analysis of these structured qualitative interviews, they were able to identify 5 distinct approaches that family physicians use for deal...
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I AM A RESISTER TO SUPERIMPOSING A PREVENTIVE MEDICINE AGENDA ONTO ORDINARY VISITS, BUT IT WAS NOT ALWAYS SO. I DILIGENTLY PERFORMED SCHIOTZ TONOMETRY ON PATIENTS OVER 40 IN THE EARLY YEARS OF MY PRACTICE AND WAS DOING PROCTOSCOPIES BEFORE THE DAYS OF FIBEROPTICS. THESE ACTIVITIES WERE NOT POPULAR WITH PATIENTS NOR WITH ME. OF COURSE I ALSO DID CHEST XRAYS AT THE TIME OF ANNUAL PERIODIC EXAMS BEFORE THAT WAS DISCOURAGED....
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