Can sociology offer a new way of viewing our daily surgeries?: >Seeing the general in the particular, the social in the individual

摘要

In general practice we are encouraged to consider the physical, psychological and social dimensions of the problems people bring to us. Sociology is the study of human society; a way of understanding not just counting. Sociologists vary in their perspectives, methods and values but share the aim of understanding and explaining the social world. As a GP I work hard not to make assumptions about people based on age, sex, and number of earrings, tattoos or facial piercing. I see individual people each day in my work, and outside. I have individual relationships, each different; I relish these differences.