Fried convincingly relates Menzel's haunting "private paintings" of desolate interiors or courtyards to writers like Kierkegaard, Kafka and W. G. Sebald -- Menzel's anxious fellow practitioners in the art of "embodiment".
It is important that patients are neither made unnecessarily anxious, nor should general practitioners be overburdened by consultations with 'the worried well'.
A recurrent finding was that almost all community-based practitioners felt anxious about assuming this duty and unsure of its scope.
Empirical research has indicated that practitioners are anxious about approaching parents for consent to clinical trials even outside of the emergency setting [ 7].
Operating in the consultation: a coherent narrative emerged, gathered from almost all of the participants, of practitioners being anxious in the consultation because of an uncertainty about what to do and of what was expected of them as primary care clinicians.
Though generations apart, Moss and Wallace write of their own apprenticeships as a golden age and are anxious for today's practitioner, who is increasingly coralled by habitat loss on to reserves that function as little more than wildlife theme parks, where eco-merchants ply them with ever more complicated technologies and superfluous accessories.
It is important that patients should not be made unnecessarily anxious, and nor should general practitioners be overburdened with consultations with the worried well population.
These results are probably derived, at least in part, from the effective frontline risk communication efforts of the district health officers who offered guidance to local general practitioners and the anxious public at the outbreak scene.
Although the move away from paternalistic models of care towards collaborative models in which decision-making is shared between patient and professional has been widely promoted by policy initiatives [ 29, 30] we found many practitioners were very anxious about where responsibility lay when a patient was required to take more responsibility in practice.
Dr Louise Schierback, co-author of the report, said: "These results matter because medical practitioners and women have been anxious of HRT for the past decade.
