It was aimed to know the perception of physicians in emergency departments on health care networks. This is a qualitative study, with phenomenological reference. The study was conducted in three hospitals of a Brazilian capital. Participants were doctors from the hospitals and physicians on duty of the Mobile Emergency Care Service (Samu). Stood out the dimensions: particularities of emergency physicians, (dis)integration and constitution of networks, movements of patients into the health care network and interposition in the professional act. The perceptions raise the need for interventions that align concepts inherent to the organization in health care networks to the conception experienced in practice.
Health systems; Health personnel; Emergency medical services; Qualitative research