What the doctor doesn't know: Discarded patient knowledge of older adults with multimorbidity.
Alexandra Brandt Ryborg JønssonAnn Dorrit GuassoraMorten FreilSusanne ReventlowPublished in: Chronic illness (2018)
The participants made judgments on what they believed was welcome in the clinical encounter, framing their knowledge within the purview of biomedicine. Participants' disclosure practices showed that personal knowledge is sometimes not recognized as important for health and care by participants themselves. Knowledge that could have influenced practitioners' understanding of the problem and provided different solutions, is argued to be discarded patient knowledge.