PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Ventres, William
TI  - The Joy of Family Practice
AID  - 10.1370/afm.1372
DP  - 2012 May 01
TA  - The Annals of Family Medicine
PG  - 264--268
VI  - 10
IP  - 3
4099  - http://www.annfammed.org/content/10/3/264.short
4100  - http://www.annfammed.org/content/10/3/264.full
SO  - Ann Fam Med2012 May 01; 10
AB  - Many family physicians have written about how they influence, nurture, and empower people in their communities of practice. In this essay, the author writes of the personal joys that family medicine has brought him. An expression of his appreciation for his work as a family doctor, it touches on 6 themes that continue to rejuvenate his practice: love, faith, mystery, place, dance, and medicine. By examining the emotional and psychological dimensions of these themes, he offers a path by which other family physicians may be able to find sustenance and joy in their daily work.