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Women's and doctors' accounts of their experiences of depression in primary care: the influence of social and moral reasoning on patients' and doctors' decisions.

Maxwell, Margaret
Chronic illness; 2005 Mar;1(1):61-71. PMID: 17136934
Community Health Sciences, General Practice Section, School of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, University of Edinburgh, 20 West Richmond Street, Edinburgh EH8 9DX, UK. Margaret.maxwell@ed.ac.uk
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Abstract

Little is known about how general practitioners (GPs) manage depression within everyday clinical practice, particularly in relation to the issue of 'problem definition'. In addition, there has been relatively little research on the patients' perspective of depression and its management in primary care.