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informed that their smears were 'inadequate for accurate reporting' (p. 108).
In the New Zealand study the laboratory personnel's diagnoses seem to have
been challenged and overruled by one of the clinicians. In the British case the
laboratory personnel were involved in screening errors and part of a network
described as far from optimal. I have found no documentation of cervical cancer
screening failures in Sweden.
6 Bennet, J.H. (1862)
An introduction to clinical medicine
, pp. 106-7. Quoted in
McGrath (2002).
7 I have borrowed this term from the sociologist Karin Knorr Cetina (2001).
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