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Paradigms of family medicine: bridging traditions with new concepts; meeting the challenge of being the good doctor from 2011

This is the paper for the Wes Fabb Oration for the WONCA Asia Pacific Regional Conference 2011. This paper will review the case for the important role of the family physician/general practitioner in worldwide health care as determined by the WHO. The importance of continuing care is highlighted. The...

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Autor principal: Murtagh, John E
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3199793/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21762524
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1447-056X-10-9
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spelling pubmed-31997932011-10-25 Paradigms of family medicine: bridging traditions with new concepts; meeting the challenge of being the good doctor from 2011 Murtagh, John E Asia Pac Fam Med Review This is the paper for the Wes Fabb Oration for the WONCA Asia Pacific Regional Conference 2011. This paper will review the case for the important role of the family physician/general practitioner in worldwide health care as determined by the WHO. The importance of continuing care is highlighted. The features of a good doctor will be defined and the process of meeting this challenge for excellence of care is presented. BioMed Central 2011-07-16 /pmc/articles/PMC3199793/ /pubmed/21762524 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1447-056X-10-9 Text en Copyright ©2011 Murtagh; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3199793/
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