Patient-Centred Care: A towering dream and coalface calamity

  • Dr Russell Kirkby

Abstract

Patient-centredness is one of our big buzz-words in family medicine. For the battler at the coalface and the patient himself, these must often seem like more Academia-speak than reality. Two experiences recently put this into perspective in the real wodd of current South African medicine.

Author Biography

Dr Russell Kirkby
MBChB, MPraxMed(Medunsa), DA, MFGP, Mk (Sports Medicine) (Pret), BSc. (Hons) (PU for CHE), Principol Family Physicion
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Editorials