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OBJECTIVE: To describe doctors' views on, and responses to, their professional working lives in the UK National Health Service (NHS). DESIGN: Qualitative study using semi structured interviews. Setting Two district hospitals and primary care settings in the North of England. PARTICIPANTS: Fifty-two doctors participated in the study--47 worked in hospital and five worked in general practice. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Qualitative information regarding doctors' views on their working lives. RESULTS: The study provided insights into the views of their working lives of a sample of doctors in the NHS. Feelings they articulated contained a number of ambivalences. Feelings about the future were coloured by concerns about the impact of regulatory changes and processes of modernization on the experiential knowledge of doctors. CONCLUSIONS: These insights into doctors' views of their working lives might usefully inform those involved in the planning and overseeing of changes to health service structures and systems.
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