Abstract
A personal experience with a chronic foot injury taught me 4 lessons about living with a chronic condition: people with chronic conditions may blame themselves, may feel guilty that other people have to help them, often have a depression that may be worse than the chronic condition, and may lose confidence in their capacity to do anything useful in life. These feelings need to be elicited and addressed when family physicians provide care to people with chronic conditions.
- Received for publication January 14, 2010.
- Revision received April 10, 2010.
- Accepted for publication April 27, 2010.
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