Abstract
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.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1028-1031 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Australian Family Physician |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue number | 12 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2003 |