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What This Study Found This essay describes the relationship between family medicine�s struggle for identity and the dominant American culture within which that struggle occurs. The author argues that family medicine�s history may be best characterized by core conflicts rather than by core values. These include conflicts between the generalist nature of family medicine and the family physician�s identity as a specialist, and between the desire to be a part of mainstream American biomedical culture and a part of the medical counterculture. The author suggests that family medicine avoid new bandwagons and slogans that promise to solve its identity problems, and that clinicians adopt a reflective approach to their practice and to the future of the discipline.
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- THE STRUGGLE FOR IDENTITY
- COMPETING IDENTITY MODELS IN FAMILY MEDICINE
- FAMILY MEDICINE CULTURE AND IDENTITY IN THEORY AND OPERATION
- A HISTORY OF CONFLICT
- WHAT’S IN A NAME?
- INSIDE AND OUTSIDE: FAMILY MEDICINE’S PROBLEMATIC BOUNDARIES
- FAMILY MEDICINE AS CULTURAL REALITY, FAMILY MEDICINE AS METAPHOR
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