I was talking to a fellow FP resident who's complaining that some of the faculty members in our program are playing down on the scientific aspects of family medicine and placing too much emphasis on "non-scientific" things like emotional/spiritual support and "integrative medicine". I agree with him to a certain degree.
A catchphrase for the FPs is to "treat a patient as a whole", which sets apart from specialists who treat "only parts of a body." I think it is important to understand, however, that the building blocks of FP is still the core knowledge of medicine. Our goal to become a good FP doctor is to be a physician who know "at least" as much as any other doctor, with the value-added bonus of being sensitive to a patient's emotional need. We are not psychologists or priests, and we are not referral robots. We should be physicians with a heart.
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FP is pretty much same as GP.... in England, thats the way i see it
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