Ventres WB, Stone LA, Rowland KT, Streiffer RH, Macechko MD, Roulier JA, Borkan JM, Green LA. Storylines of family medicine I: framing family medicine - history, values and perspectives.
Fam Med Community Health 2024;
12:e002788. [PMID:
38609088 PMCID:
PMC11029363 DOI:
10.1136/fmch-2024-002788]
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Abstract
Storylines of Family Medicine is a 12-part series of thematically linked mini-essays with accompanying illustrations that explore the many dimensions of family medicine, as interpreted by individual family physicians and medical educators in the USA and elsewhere around the world. In 'I: framing family medicine-history, values, and perspectives', the authors address the following themes: 'Notes on Storylines of Family Medicine', 'Family medicine-the generalist specialty', 'Family medicine's achievements-a glass half full assessment', 'Family medicine's next 50 years-toward filling our glasses', 'Four enduring truths of family medicine', 'Names matter', 'Family medicine at its core' and 'The ecology of medical care.' May readers find much food for thought in these essays.
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