RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The Joy of Family Practice
JF The Annals of Family Medicine
JO Ann Fam Med
FD American Academy of Family Physicians
SP 264
OP 268
DO 10.1370/afm.1372
VO 10
IS 3
A1 William Ventres
YR 2012
UL http://www.annfammed.org/content/10/3/264.abstract
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.