Prescribing Antibiotics

General Practitioners Dealing with “Non-Medical Issues”

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19541332
AutoresInge Kryger Pedersen (0000-0003-3542-3532, University of Copenhagen), Kim Sune Karrasch Jepsen (0000-0001-9215-9147, Lund University), Kim Sune Jepsen
Año2018
Volumen8
Número1
Páginase1983
Fecha de publicación2018-02-23
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaProfessions and Professionalism (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1893-1049 • E-ISSN: 1893-1049
EditorialOsloMet - Oslo Metropolitan University (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.7577/pp.1983
OpenAlexW2793580693
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas13

The medical professions will lose an indispensable tool in clinical practice if even simple infections cannot be cured because antibiotics have lost effectiveness. This article presents results from an exploratory enquiry into “good doctoring” in the case of antibiotic prescribing at a time when the knowledge base in the healthcare field is shifting. Drawing on in-depth interviews about diagnosing and prescribing, the article demonstrates how the problem of antimicrobial resistance is understood and engaged with by Danish general practitioners. When general practitioners speak of managing “non-medical issues,” they refer to routines, clinical expertise, experiences with their patients, and decision-making based more on contextual circumstances than molecular conditions—and on the fact that such conditions can be hard to assess. This article’s contribution to knowledge about how new and global health problems challenge professional actors affirms the importance of such a research agenda and the need for further exploration of the core problems posed by transnational sociology of professions

Danish · Engineering ethics · Health care · Health professionals · Knowledge base · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Antibiotic Use and Resistance · Computer Science · Engineering · Law · Medicine · Pharmaceutical industry and healthcare · Primary Care and Health Outcomes · Psychology