What people want from their family physician
Stock Keister, M.C.; Green, L.A.; Kahn, N.B.; Phillips, R.L.; McCann, J.; Fryer, G.E.
American Family Physician 69(10): 2310
2004
ISSN/ISBN: 0002-838X PMID: 15168951 Document Number: 583092
The public wants and is satisfied by care provided within a patient-physician relationship based on understanding, honesty, and trust. If the U.S. health care system is ever to become patient-centered, it must be designed to support these values and sustain, rather than fracture, the relationships people have with their primary physician.