PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - William B. Ventres
TI  - Looking Within: Intentions of Practice for Person-Centered Care
AID  - 10.1370/afm.2037
DP  - 2017 Mar 01
TA  - The Annals of Family Medicine
PG  - 171--174
VI  - 15
IP  - 2
4099  - http://www.annfammed.org/content/15/2/171.short
4100  - http://www.annfammed.org/content/15/2/171.full
SO  - Ann Fam Med2017 Mar 01; 15
AB  - In order to integrate the biological, psychological, social, and existential dimensions of care into my day-to-day clinical encounters with patients, I have worked to cultivate several intentions of practice. These intentions of practice—habits of mind that nurture my resolve to attend to patients as complex human beings— help me navigate my interactions with patients and families in ways that are simultaneously efficacious and therapeutic. When routinely recalled and adeptly implemented, they are what distinguish me as a competent and capable practitioner of person-centered care, when I am at my best, from when I am not. I present them here in hopes that others may find them useful as they progress down their ongoing paths as healing physicians.