This is particularly true for patients we sometimes call “complex.” In other contexts, we call them “high utilizers,” “disadvantaged,” “heartsink patients,” or “people with trauma histories.” Blount calls them ...

-The foreword is written by Dr. Robert Taylor (Family Medicine; Fundamentals of Family Medicine) This distinct book profiles ten graduates from the Physician Shortage Area Program (PSAP) of Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson ...

This volume thus offers practical guidance for the physician who would like to take greater advantage of this resource.

Here is an insightful review of the origins of family medicine as an AMA-approved specialty, including the difficulties in developing the role of family physician.

In Searching for the Family Doctor, Timothy J. Hoff weaves together the early history of the family practice specialty in the United States with the personal narratives of modern-day family doctors.

They involve the study of the everyday decisions made by the primary care physicians. The aim of this book is to present researches that have transformed family medicine and aided its advancement.

This book gives useful advice from experts in the field about how to create a culture of safety that leads to an interactive relationship between the patient and their family members and the caregiver so that quality and safety improve.

... Germantown Pike , Suite 207 Plymouth Meeting , PA 19462 800-991-1515 Fax ... MD , Professor and Chair ( Interim ) , Department of Family Medi- cine , 456 ... family practice or its equivalent . The appointee. 228 Family Medicine March 1996.