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When I am visited by colleagues from North America there are two questions about general practice in the UK which are invariably posed: &;#x2018;Why don&;#x2019;t general practitioners work in hospitals?&;#x2019; and &;#x2018;What is an independent contractor?&;#x2019; Any review about restraint in general practice must start from the basis of answers to these two questions. I propose to trace their historical origins and then look at the advantages and disadvantages which have accrued and their effects upon restraint.
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Drury, V.W.M. (1983). Current Problems of Restraint in General Practice. In: L’etang, H. (eds) Regulation and Restraint in Contemporary Medicine in the UK and USA. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06501-1_13
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