Why rivers run: on the headwaters of family medicine

摘要

Most general practitioners I know are reasonably accomplished diagnosticians, skilled technicians, composed professionals, and hard workers. We do a job; it pays the bills. Our surgeries are a formidable facade for life's free-for-all: making friends, building businesses, raising families, and growing old together. We have never thought to enforce a degree of separation between the patient and us. In the process, we have learned about human relationships and the larder of trust and gratitude our patients stock on our behalf.