Four studies in this issue provide unique insights into what patients value in health care. 1-4
Three studies reveal possible ways to achieve this value. 3-5 Four studies in this issue are …

5 cians see a more complex portrait of the nation's diverse communities. Family doctors
practice in communities reflecting the geographic distribution of the nation's overall …

This commentary examines what it might look like to be countercultural in the current era of
health care change, and asks what we should hold onto and what we should let go of as we …

This issue of Annals is devoted to original research, methodology, theory, and essay that
show how difficult it is to improve practice in the real world. Rather than seeing the …

The patient needs that family physicians witness and strive to meet each day are immediate
and personal. 1 That immediacy, and directly knowing the individuals, families, and …

Resilient Threads to give voice to exhausted health care professionals and women in
medicine and academia—groups that face “overwhelming and unrelieved stress”(p. xxx) …

BACKGROUND. Most efforts to improve health care have been made without a full
understanding of the value of a primary care approach. METHODS. This article synthesizes …

Family medicine is a champion of human-focused health care in the context of lasting
relationships. What do humans need—those who seek care and those who offer it? Respect …

BACKGROUND To lay the groundwork for the development of a comprehensive strategy to
transform and renew the specialty of family medicine, this Future of Family Medicine task …

Although the American health care system seems forever in flux, the young doctors who
enter it provide one constant: their desire to help others. How will this desire express itself in …