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Doctor as Street-Level Bureaucrat

Elvin Geng

2021New England Journal of Medicine12 citationsDOI

Abstract

Doctors are street-level bureaucrats, making decisions that can have particularly significant effects on vulnerable people. Often when we’re faced with a choice between defending the system and advocating for the patient, we instinctively do the former.

Topics & Concepts

MedicineMedical emergencyMental Health and Patient InvolvementGlobal Maternal and Child HealthHealthcare Policy and Management