A Swedish Patient’s Experience of the Medical Care System: Ideal and Reality, Power and Dependence

doi:10.4324/9780429045738-16

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A Swedish Patient’s Experience of the Medical Care System: Ideal and Reality, Power and Dependence

ABSTRACT

Throughout the world, patients anxiously seek those who will cure them. It is an encounter between the dependent individual and a system with ultimate power. Our hope is that this power is used responsibly and with care.