The wonder and the mystery 10 years of reflections from the Annals of Family Medicine
The book is a unique collection of personal reflections and ideas from the Annals of Family Medicine, a primary care research journal. Each article has some connection to primary care but, as a compilation, it covers a wide range of topics, from the deeply personal to professional and policy issues....
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Radcliffe Publishing
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Table of Contents:
- Section 1: Primary care at work Nasruddin and the coin
- One last question: opening Pandora's box?
- A headache at the end of the day
- The joy of family practice
- Success, regret, and the struggle for balance-- The company we keep: why physicians should refuse to see pharmaceutical representatives
- Doctors' work: eulogy for my vocation
- Section 2: Patient care and caring
- Pounds--The old duffers' club Home care: a key to the future of family medicine?-- Boy scouts for henry-- Lessons from my left foot-- Section 3: Wounds and healing Suffering, meaning, and healing: challenges of contemporary medicine
- Letting the news
- Losing touch in the era of superbugs?
- The decade dance
- The face of cancer
- Section 4: Connections
- A change will do you good
- Linking Ruth to her past
- On this day of mothers and sons
- Jazz and the 'art' of medicine: improvisation in the medical encounter
- Gazing at the future
- Section 5: Knowledge
- General medical practitioners need to be aware of the theories on which our work depend
- The irreverent nature of evidence
- Bag of worms
- The impotence of being important - reflections on leadership
- 'Be gentle and be sincere about it': a story about community-based primary care research
- The dark bridal canopy
- Making time to write?
- Section 6: Who we are and where we're going
- A public celebration of a personal doctor
- Health care becomes an industry
- The dream of home ownership
- The myth of the lone physician: towards a collaborative alternative
- Dinosaurs, hospital ecosystems, and the future of family
- Section 7: Medicine, society, the world
- The island Si, Doctora Stuck in the mud
- Indication
- The break-even point: when medical advances are less important than improving the fidelity with which they are delivered
- Ecological change and the future of the human species: can physicians make a difference?
- A journey to someplace better
- Index