The findings suggest that the team needs to offer better continuity of care and might act as a concierge, an advocate, or abuddy.
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Once this elementary 'buddygroup' is constructed, the intervening woman becomes at best irrelevant.
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Among the staff focus groups, a theme emerged that the team should act like abuddysystem or concierge.
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Within the 24 plural full nouns, 66% (16) actually include the lexical items friends or buddies.
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On the contrary, we must deconstruct thebuddygroup to show the male audience as a construction.
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Buddydied in 1991, and the present of the film, twenty-three years after the initial adolescent romance, is contemporary, about 1996.
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Secondly, there is the question of the differences that the analysis has established between the two voices in thebuddygroup, and the nature of the relationship between them.
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To be able to find its 'buddy' closures, it is useful to have an auxiliary array pointing to them.
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Berry's demonstration points up, as economically as anything, the limitations to 'solidarity', and the inadequacies of the 'buddygroup' as a form for overcoming social divisions.
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This representation of the 'buddygroup' has continuities with other group, or dual representations of male identity, where mutual, male selves and desires are constructed around an imagined, comforting woman.
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I recently attended the inaugural meetings of two new bosom buddies groups.
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Thatbuddyalso acts as a mediator between him and other employees who may initially find his behaviour a little strange.
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It is for health authority and local authority commissioners to decide whether to commission buddying services locally.
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Some of these grants may, from time to time, be used to fund buddying schemes.
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I shall regard him as a "buddy" henceforth.
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