Patient-centred Care - Teaching old Docs New Tricks
Abstract
You are a general practitioner in your mid forties and have been in practice for fifteen years in a rural area of South Africa. You have attended some congresses but the work load of your practice and bringing up your family have left you with a need to update your knowledge. You decide to sit one of the postgraduate exams in Family medicine. You have written the papers and now go for the oral examinations. The examiner explains that a revolution has occurred in Family practice theory since you qualified and asks you the following questions:
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