Knowing what the patient wants:a hospital ethnography studying physician culture in shared decision making in the Netherlands

OBJECTIVES: To study physician culture in relation to shared decision making (SDM) practice. DESIGN: Execution of a hospital ethnography, combined with interviews and a study of clinical guidelines. Ten-week observations by an insider (physician) and an outsider (student medical anthropology) observer. The use of French sociologist Bourdieu's 'Theory of Practice' and its description of habitus, field and capital, as a lens for analysing physician culture. SETTING: The gynaecological oncology department of a university hospital in the Netherlands. Observations were executed at meetings, as well... Mehr ...