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- Figure 1.
The ecology of medical care revisited.
Note: All numbers refer to discrete individual persons and whether or not they received care in each setting in a typical month.
From: Green LA, Fryer GE Jr, Yawn BP, Lanier D, Dovey SM. The ecology of medical care revisited. N Engl J Med. 2001;344:2021–2025.10 Reprinted with permission from the Massachusetts Medical Society. Copyright© 2001 Massachusetts Medical Society. All rights reserved.
- Figure 2.
Generalist wheel of knowledge, understanding, and inquiry.
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Inner Reality Outer Reality Individual Quadrant 1 Quadrant 4 Type of knowledge “I” knowledge “It” knowledge Why Understanding the clinician is essential to family practice, since in part “the doctor is the drug” Understanding that natural phenomena and interventions to affect them comprise the biological basis of medical practices What Knowledge of the clinician Disease-specific knowledge of clinical phenomena How Self-reflection, journaling Observation, epidemiology, experimentation Who Reflective clinicians Detached observers Where Practice People or parts of people Collective Quadrant 2 Quadrant 3 Type of knowledge “We” knowledge “It” knowledge Why The voices of patients, families, and communities are central to the goals and effectiveness of family practice Family practice operates within a systems context, which must be understood to enhance its effectiveness What Knowledge of the patient in context Systems knowledge How Participatory research Health services research Who Participant observers Health services researchers Where Community or practice Health care system
