Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
7333366 Social Science & Medicine 2015 7 Pages PDF
Abstract
Lastly, building on the empirical case of cancer diagnostics, we discuss the implications of the pervasiveness of the logic of efficiency in the clinical setting and argue that provision of medical care in today's primary care settings requires careful balancing of increasing demands of efficiency, greater complexity of biomedical knowledge and consideration for individual patient needs.
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