I don't think of consultations themselves as CASs but I do think that they represent interactions of CASs (Practitioner, patient, ill or healthy body, health beliefs etc) in that these systems may be perturbed or not according to the interaction.
Maybe
Chris
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Chris Burton, [log in to unmask] on 18/04/2002
On Mon, 15 Apr 2002 17:20:01 EDT, Charles Campion-Smith wrote:
>Is it helpful to think of the consultation itself as a complex
>adaptive system?
>
>Mine certainly move between areas of agreement and (a bit) higher
>certainty and absolute chaos.
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>There are some simple rules operating and the system seems well able
>to change itself.
>
>Clear and shared attactors increase the likelihood of successful
>outcomes - but predicting what will happen still feels more like
>throwing birds than stones!
>
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