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Three Lakes Medical Clinic Provides healthcare for individuals and families at community-based family practice clinics. Patients can get care from their primary care provider, either a family doctor or a nurse practitioner, and their teams.
Oct 27, 2024 · Shortly thereafter, schools, churches, libraries, theatres, colleges and dance halls were shuttered for a total of thirty-three days, and community gatherings in general were banned.
Apr 12, 2024 · 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.
Nov 11, 2019 · Narrative medicine is a relatively new concept. It's about spending the time to get a patient's story and not just the facts of immediate importance to the acute encounter.
- The family physician is a skilled clinician. Family physicians demonstrate competence in the patient-centred clinical method; they integrate a sensitive, skillful, and appropriate search for disease.
- Family medicine is a community-based discipline. Family practice is based in the community and is significantly influenced by community factors. As a member of the community, the family physician is able to respond to people’s changing needs, to adapt quickly to changing circumstances, and to mobilize appropriate resources to address patients’ needs.
- The family physician is a resource to a defined practice population. The family physician views his or her practice as a “population at risk,” and organizes the practice to ensure that patients’ health is maintained whether or not they are visiting the office.
- The patient-physician relationship is central to the role of the family physician. Family physicians have an understanding and appreciation of the human condition, especially the nature of suffering and patients’ response to sickness.
Despite the advances in technology, information transmission and evidence-based medicine, the role of the patient's story is still a key to effective medical care. This paper examines the roles of narrative in medicine with particular emphasis on the narrative world of the primary care provider.
Description. Provides healthcare for individuals and families at community-based family practice clinics. Patients can get care from their primary care provider, either a family doctor or a nurse practitioner, and their teams.
