Long-stay Inpatients in Short-term Emergency Units in France. A Commentary on Gansel, Danet, and Rauscher  

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Zussman, Robert

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Social Science & Medicine (www.elsevier.com/locate/sosscimed) vol. 70 no. 4 (Feb. 2010), page 509-510.
Topik: France; Emergency Medical Services; Bed Occupancy; USA

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Comparative research is often as interesting for the differences it does not discover as for the differences it does discover. As an American reading Gansel, Danet, Rauscher's (2010) in this issue of Social Science & Medicine I am struck far more powerfully by the similarities between France and the United States than the differences. The core of Gansel et al.'s argument is that "bed blockers' provide a set of more or less discursive resources around which Emergency Unit personnel build a positive identity, organised around a vision of humanistic and holistic medicine that stands in stark contrast to the dominant values of French medicine, values that contribute to the depersonalization of patients by stressing specialization and sciences. This is a fascinating argument and one that is, on the face of it, quite different from readings of similar phenomena, at least in American hospitals. But this apparent difference is, I think, deceptive.

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