My Doctor

This lecture describes what I consider to be the special function of the general practitioner and examines whether personal care in general practice is an ideal difficult to attain or merely a myth. The examples given and the data presented are highly selected.

• Publication year

  1985

• Venue

  Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

• Publication date

  1985-01-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1056/nejm197409052911023PMID 3968678PMCID PMC1289539
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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