A family orientation in health care can provide a wider understanding of illness and a broader range of solutions than the classic biomedical model. This volume thus offers practical guidance for the physician who would like to take greater advantage of this resource. The result is a readable guide, structured around step-by-step protocols that are vividly illustrated with case studies drawn from the authors extensive experience at the University of Rochester School of Medicine.
Within the medical professions, the notion of the family as the basic unit of medical care has attracted a wide following, especially from physicians committed to a psychosocial orientation.
Family Oriented Primary Care
This text is a practical guide for health professionals working in primary care who wish to improve their management of problem patients, problem families and problem situations.
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.
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 ...
Community Oriented Primary Care: New Directions for Health Services Delivery
This book is divided into four sections and begins by explaining the relationship between psychosomatic medicine and primary care.
*Written by the European expert on family medicine, this book offers theory enforced with practical case studies and reflections Modern family healthcare is under a lot of pressure, from insecurity when it comes to diagnosis and ...
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With content organized around the American board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation core curriculum, this powerful review is enhanced by more than 500 review questions and answers, and concise, bulleted, high-yield text.