RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Three Thirty-Two AM: My Last Call
JF The Annals of Family Medicine
JO Ann Fam Med
FD American Academy of Family Physicians
SP 280
OP 281
DO 10.1370/afm.2969
VO 21
IS 3
A1 Schrager, Sarina B.
YR 2023
UL http://www.annfammed.org/content/21/3/280.abstract
AB In this essay, I describe my last overnight call as I transitioned out of practicing obstetrics. I was worried that by giving up doing inpatient medicine and practicing obstetrics, I would lose my identity as a family physician. I realized that I can embody the core values of a family physician, including generalism and patient centeredness, in the office as well as in the hospital. Family physicians can stay true to their historical values even while giving up inpatient medicine and obstetric care by remembering that it is not only what we do, but how we do it that is important.