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Rethinking general practice for the 21st century. The patient counts!
Joachim P Sturmberg1, Carmel Martin, Leon Piterman
1Department of General Practice, Monash University, Victoria. achim.sturmberg@iname.com
Background:
Increasingly, reforms to health care systems appear to interfere with the traditional (healer) role of the general practitioner, and are perceived to disrupt patient care and the therapeutic relationship.
Objective:
To outline measures for the survival and future development of the discipline of general practice in Australia.
Discussion:
In order to preserve longitudinal relationship centred care and high level primary care clinical expertise, health bureaucracies and general practice itself, must re-focus care on the individual and community, integrating new developments rather than allowing 'new ideas and system pressures' to continually distort functional general practice.