At the coalface and the cutting edge: general practitioners’ accounts of the rewards of engaging with HIV medicine

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2013-03-21
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Newman, Christy E
Persson, Asha
de Wit, John B F
Reynolds, Robert H
Canavan, Peter G
Kippax, Susan C
Kidd, Michael Richard
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BioMed Central Ltd.
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The interviews we conducted with GPs suggest that an engagement with HIV medicine enables clinicians to develop strong and long-term relationships with and expertise about the care needs of people living with HIV ‘at the coalface’, while also feeling connected with a broader network of medical practitioners and other professionals concerned with and contributing to the ever-changing world of science: ‘the cutting edge’. The general practice HIV prescriber is being modelled here as the interface between these two worlds, offering a rewarding opportunity for general practitioners to feel intimately connected to both community needs and scientific change.
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Public health, General practice, HIV, Australia
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Newman, C.E., Persson, A., de Wit, J.B.F., Reynolds, R.H., Canavan, P.G., Kippax, S.C. and Kidd, M.R., 2013. At the coalface and the cutting edge: general practitioners’ accounts of the rewards of engaging with HIV medicine. BMC Family Practice, 14:39.