Family doctor

Family Doctor

Patient, Hospital, and Family Doctor

DiSSATISFIrn doctors often complain that the status of the family doctor is being steadily lowered and that he will soon be nothing more than a writer of notes directing patients to different hospital departments. The investigation described here is an account of the patients referred to hospital in one particular practice over a period of twelve months. Not much has been published on this topi...

The general practitioner as family doctor.

THE problem of finding and defining the ethos of general practice is not solved by l giving a new name to the discipline. The search for a new name is rather a symptom of the uneasiness that general practitioners experience when they come to look for what is special or separate in their department of medical practice. One name in particular has gained currency-'the family doctor'. The purpose o...

The Future of the Family Doctor

"Throughout the world the cost of modern hospital care is giving cause for alarm ... We are, in fact, spending proportionately less than we were on domiciliary medical care. .. This is a shortsighted policy. Unless the family doctor can do his work efficiently, the cost of the hospital service will be bound to rise." These opening phrases must challenge everyone who does not see medicine only i...

The Work of a Family Doctor

hazy on relationships affecting the school doctor, the headmaster, the Medical Officer of Health, and the Local Education Authority. Many will disagree also with the advice that "a routine chest X-ray from the age of 13 is desirable", and will wonder that a first-aid box is necessary in the kitchen, but is not asked for elsewhere in the school. Nevertheless, the main part of the book is on comm...