• Why don't we take a look at the patient? : an anthropological analysis of how doctors become doctors 

      Risør, Torsten (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2012)
      The present thesis is a study of how doctors learn to make clinical decisions; decisions about diagnosis and therapy of the individual patient in the context of the clinic. It is based on ethnographic fieldwork and anthropological analysis carried out in 2006-2009. The key informants are nine doctors who go through internship and the empirical field is the wards and clinics of regional hospitals, ...
    • 'You should see a doctor', said the robot: Reflections on a digital diagnostic device in a pandemic age 

      Haase, Christoffer Bjerre; Bearman, Margaret; Brodersen, John; Hoeyer, Klaus; Risør, Torsten (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-12-18)
      Aims: In three days at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Copenhagen Emergency Medical Services developed a digital diagnostic device. The purpose was to assess and triage potential COVID-19 symptoms and to reduce the number of calls to public health-care helplines. The device was used almost 150,000 times in a few weeks and was described by politicians and administrators as a solution and ...