@misc{Wierciński_Hubert_Are_2019,
 author={Wierciński, Hubert},
 volume={40},
 copyright={Creative Commons Attribution BY-SA 3.0 PL license},
 address={Warsaw},
 journal={Ethnologia Polona},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2019},
 publisher={Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology Polish Academy of Sciences},
 language={eng},
 abstract={In this article I explore the range of entrepreneurial roles played by doctors working in Polish Primary Health Care [Podstawowa Opieka Zdrowotna – POZ]. I use the division into social and strictly business entrepreneurship – whose source comes from economic sciences – in order to examine what entrepreneurial values rural/small town doctors and their city colleagues recognise and use in their practices. POZ is mainly carried out in private clinics contracted by the National Health Fund [Narodowy Fundusz Zdrowia – NFZ], therefore I look at the values associated with entrepreneurship. I consider these values as visibly altering doctor–patient encounters, thus I analyse doctor’s strategies for establishing his/ her formal and informal relations with patients. I focus my attention on the specific forms of experiencing time in primary care, namely short and long time structures, which I recognise as crucial for interactions between practitioners and their patients. Finally, I put forward the thesis that much of the interaction in POZ offices has the characteristics of symbolic exchange – the reciprocal forms of doctor–patient interactions transfer these encounters beyond purely medical interventions to spaces of mutual cooperation, attachment and trust.},
 type={Text},
 title={Are Polish Primary Care Practitioners Social Entrepreneurs?},
 URL={http://www.rcin.org.pl/iae/Content/98635/PDF/Ethnologia-Polona-vol-40-2019_10-HUBERT-WIERCI%C5%83SKI.pdf},
 keywords={Poland, primary care, social entrepreneurship, doctor-patient relations},
}