RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 A Public Celebration of a Personal Doctor
JF The Annals of Family Medicine
JO Ann Fam Med
FD American Academy of Family Physicians
SP 362
OP 365
DO 10.1370/afm.1094
VO 8
IS 4
A1 William R. Phillips
A1 Larry A. Green
YR 2010
UL http://www.annfammed.org/content/8/4/362.abstract
AB The life of a family doctor is engaged with the people, families, and community he or she serves. Caring changes lives. Yet, we seldom have the opportunity to hear the gratitude or to reflect upon the privilege. In this essay, two family doctors share the experience of seeing a community celebrate the life of their doctor. In these public reflections on their personal doctor, folks reveal how he saw their needs, understood their fears, and partnered with them to create futures. Their stories are compelling evidence that personal doctoring is alive and well and held deeply in the heart of America.