World Organisation of Family Doctors (Wonca) perspectives on person-centered medicine
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In A Fortunate Man, his magnificent account of the work of a rural family doctor, published in 1967 [2], John Berger described the “individual and closely intimate recognition” which is necessary. He explains the need for the doctor to come close enough to see and to hear and so to recognise the particular suffering individual. It is this recognition that underpins the commitment to person-centered medicine. The practice of medicine depends on the ability to make a connection between the generalisations of biomedical science and the unique individual experience of illness and disease. In Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak wrote [3]:
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