Medical consumerism and the modern patient: successful ageing, self-management and the ‘fantastic prosumer’
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DOI: 10.1177/0141076820911574
Abstract: Most doctors do not like medical consumerism. From its early days consumerism was ‘an unwelcome thorn in the medical flesh’. According to Downie, NHS patients simply cannot become consumers and doctors cannot become suppliers of… read more here.
Keywords: consumerism; medical consumerism; generation; health ... See more keywords