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Table 6 Finding solutions

From: Understanding the prescription of antidepressants: a Qualitative study among French GPs

Quote 27

Feeling

"I feel I am able to identify him in the waiting room" (FG 2, male GP, 40, rural practice)

Quote 28

Physician Experience

"Our strength is our experience, which allows us to quickly diagnose, ultimately with only a few mistakes." (FG 3, male GP, 59, urban practice)

Quote 29

Knowledge of the patient

"I have a different threshold for my prescription if I know the patient." (FG 6, female GP, 29, locum)

Quote 30

Contact with the patient

"I think it depends on the relationship. A patient who is at the end of his tether and says something about it worries me less than one who keeps quiet."(FG4 female GP, 50, mixed practice)

Quote 31

Test diagnoses

"It's a kind of therapeutic trial: Sometimes, I get fooled. I see the patient a month later and they are doing really well. They tell me, "Hey, I stopped taking that medication." I tell myself, "If they stopped after just one month then it really wasn't a major depression."(FG1, male GP, 59, mixed practice)

Quote 32

Calling, seeing the patient again

"I'll call him back within 8 or 10 days to be certain of my diagnosis." "If the symptoms remain, and the patient comes back it is possible to prescribe ADs "(FG 1, male GP, 35, rural practice)