PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Reichsman, Ann B.
AU  - Meador, Corey
TI  - The Warmest of Handoffs: A Neighborhood Physician’s Transfer of Care
AID  - 10.1370/afm.2991
DP  - 2023 Jul 01
TA  - The Annals of Family Medicine
PG  - 372--373
VI  - 21
IP  - 4
4099  - http://www.annfammed.org/content/21/4/372.short
4100  - http://www.annfammed.org/content/21/4/372.full
SO  - Ann Fam Med2023 Jul 01; 21
AB  - Transitioning care of a patient from an outgoing to an incoming physician provides a precious opportunity to transfer knowledge and trust. We explore this process from the perspectives of 2 practitioners, an incoming physician who recently completed training and a retiring physician leaving a practice of 40 years. The method we arrived at for this transfer provided the space for collaboration on what the essence of caring for a unique individual will entail. We discovered that a handoff of care is the intergenerational transfer of culture. It involves worrying and watching and relaxing into hopefulness. It is both witnessing and launching a life’s work. It is reliving and inheriting and reinventing relationship.