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Author:  John McPhee

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Heirs of General Practice

English

ISBN: 0374708525

EAN: 9780374708528

Category: Medical / Family & General Practice

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Release Date: 04/01/2011

Synopsis:

Heirs of General Practice is a frieze of glimpses of young doctors with patients of every age—about a dozen physicians in all, who belong to the new medical specialty called family practice. They are people who have addressed themselves to a need for a unifying generalism in a world that has become greatly subdivided by specialization, physicians who work with the “unquantifiable idea that a doctor who treats your grandmother, your father, your niece, and your daughter will be more adroit in treating you.”

These young men and women are seen in their examining rooms in various rural communities in Maine, but Maine is only the example. Their medical objectives, their successes, the professional obstacles they do and do not overcome are representative of any place family practitioners are working. While essential medical background is provided, McPhee’s masterful approach to a trend significant to all of us is replete with affecting, and often amusing, stories about both doctors and their charges.

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Heirs of General Practice

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Format: eBook - EPUB

Pages: 132