Rituals and Reassurance - The Annual Medical Check-up
Keywords:
Preventative Care, Periodic Health Checks, Screening Patient Gentred Relationships
Abstract
Primary care medicine is moving increasingly away from heroic salvage medicine to less dramatic, but more demanding preventative care. Family doctors are spending more time on preventative care, either as part of an encounter for other reasons, or for periodic health checks.
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