TY - JOUR T1 - The Joy of Family Practice JF - The Annals of Family Medicine JO - Ann Fam Med SP - 264 LP - 268 DO - 10.1370/afm.1372 VL - 10 IS - 3 AU - William Ventres Y1 - 2012/05/01 UR - http://www.annfammed.org/content/10/3/264.abstract N2 - 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. ER -