Media Unfriendly

[摘要] Good news doesn’t sell newspapers, but general practice, according to an analysis of over 400 articles appearing between October 2016 and October 2017, has been having a particularly bad press recently. In this issue of the BJGP , Barry and Greenhalgh present the results of their thematic content analysis of newspaper stories about GPs and general practice. Five main themes emerge: the workforce crisis, patient access to general practice, organisation of care, GPs’ poor clinical performance, and ‘GPs’ alleged personal vices’, the last of these themes accounting for one in seven stories in the sample. The authors comment that the portrayal of GPs as morally deficient — exhibiting many vices and few virtues — is a new and somewhat alarming finding. A hundred articles about hospital medicine were also sampled and analysed. General practice was depicted as a service in …

[学科分类] 卫生学