%0 Journal Article
%T Crisis among general practitioners: a cognitive approach to the healthcare profession
%A Soulier E
%A Grenier C
%A Lewkowicz M
%J Revue M¨¦dicale de l'Assurance Maladie
%D 2006
%I 
%X Aims: There has been growing dissatisfaction among healthcare professionals over the past few years in spite of the fact that most of the indicators suggest that this dissatisfaction has no objective economic or demographic basis. General practitioners began protesting in the autumn of 2001 around the watchword ¡°an office visit for 20 ?¡±. By is scope and unexpected intensity, this protest movement constitutes another stage in the ongoing crisis which erupted in the healthcare professions nearly twenty years ago. Where does this unrest come from? Method: We analyzed statements by general practitioners on their professional practice and how they viewed their work and its evolution by using the lexical method and qualitative interview analysis. Results and conclusion: The study revealed the existence of an identity crisis doubled with a regulation crisis. Both are founded on a set of variables linked to daily work, the profession and the physician himself. We outline a few recommendations.
%K professional pratice
%K representation
%K identity
%K general practitioner
%K cognition
%K sociology of preofessions
%K discourse analysis
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