Do Patients Really Want “Family Doctors”?

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In the current controversy over the best way to train and use primary-care physicians, the need to increase the numbers has become almost axiomatic. A sharp decline in providers of primary care has been documented.1 , 2 Increasingly vocal demands by patients for more accessible, personalized care are being made. The recent burgeoning of family-practice residencies1 is a response to this perceived need, as is some of the pending major national legislation.Primary care has the individual or family as its reference point, providing continuity and co-ordination as well as first-contact care. In contrast to secondary and tertiary care, it is person-centered . . .

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