Understanding disease: Are "first world" and "third world" patients fundamentally different?
Abstract
Kirkby's recent article "The dilemma of the first world SA doctor and the third world patient" raises the interesting question of patients' explanatory models - the way in which patients attempt to make sense of their illnesses.
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