It is said that when students enter medical school, they care about the whole person, and by
the time they graduate, all they care about is the hole in the person. Current medical …

Family medicine is part of the process by which medicine adjusts itself to the changing
needs of society. Family physicians have in common the fact that they obtain fulfillment from …

• Primary care is the provision of continuing, comprehensive care to a population
undifferentiated by gender, disease, or organ system.• The most challenging diagnoses are …

Family medicine has been in conflict about whether it is a specialty or a generalist discipline.
Although for a time the family was offered as a solution to family medicine being …

14 CANADIAN FAMILY PHYSICIAN-APRIL, 1969 to bury a concept of general practice
which is still all too prevalent. The general practitioner is still seen in some quarters as the …

Although progress is being made toward defining the family physician and the specialty of
family practice, there remains a need to describe more clearly a conceptual base for family …

Nine principles of family medicine can be described: an open-ended commitment to
patients; an understanding of the context of illness; the use of all visits for preventive …

‡ Co-editor, and Professor of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford,
USA § Co-editor, and Professor of Psychology as applied to Medicine, University of London …

Although progress is being made toward defining the family physician and the specialty of
family practice, there remains a need to describe more clearly a conceptual base for family …

This fourth edition of Common Diseases comes just over 10 years after the first. There has
been change and counterchange in the primary health care (PHC) field. One change has …