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Defensive medicine: Perception and experience by French general practitioners. A qualitative focus group study Volume 16, issue 6, Juin 2020

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Authors
1 Docteur en médecine Générale, Département de Médecine Générale de l’Université de Bordeaux, 146 rue Léo Saignat, 33076 Bordeaux
2 Ancienne chef de clinique assistante, Département de Médecine Générale de l’Université de Bordeaux
3 Interne non thésé de médecine générale, Département de Médecine Générale de l’Université de Bordeaux
* Correspondance

During our university course and our professional experience in general medicine, we all observed that in many situations our medical care was influenced by various elements, sometimes leading us to go against the recommendations of good practice. These situations seemed to us almost daily in our practice of medicine, whatever the specialty or the place of exercise. We therefore wanted to explore this phenomenon and the factors behind it from the point of view of general practitioners.