Social aspects of the work of the General Practitioner

Abstract

The primary medical care is the most massive and accessible medical care. It is responsible for the first re¬action to a health problem and for the thorough medi¬cal observation of the patients. A research on the social aspects in the work of the general practitioner was con¬ducted, with in-depth interviews with 20 respondents, from whom 10 are with practices in Varna and 10 with practices outside Varna. All of the interviewed have a long experience, which guarantees the good knowledge of the problems in their practices and in the system for primary medical care as a whole. The results show that the doctors perform many activities, which are neither financially calculated nor regulated: to serve uninsured persons without payment, to transport the patients to medical institutions, etc. The unclear regu¬lation and the unfavorable socio-economic conditions in our country make the medical and the social ele¬ments in the work of the doctors difficult to separate