Types of Medical Careers

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Nov 1949 English Publisher:University of Chicago PressJournal:American Journal of Sociology, volume 55, pages 243-253 (issn: 0002-9602, eissn: 1537-5390,

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Authors: O, HALL;

doi: 10.1086/220533

pmid: 15391324

Types of Medical Careers

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Abstract

Three distinctive types of medical careers are isolated. They are described in terms of how patients are attracted, retained, and passed on to other doctors, how each doctor fits into the system of medical institutions, and how he relates himself to his colleagues.

Keywords

Humans, Medicine, Occupations

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