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Clearly, the health care field is turf dominated by the physician, and working in that field means involvement with physicians. As we will explore below, physician-psychologist contact in the health care field has been characterized—especially of late—by some friction. Accommodating to and constructively dealing with interprofessional role strain will be facilitated by knowing something of the history of medical/psychological involvement and something about the contemporary forces at work at that interface.
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Burstein, A.G., Loucks, S. (1982). The Psychologist as Health Care Clinician. In: Millon, T., Green, C.J., Meagher, R.B. (eds) Handbook of Clinical Health Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3412-5_9
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