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Welcome to the Family, More Than 'Referralists'
Maury J. Greenberg, MD, D-ABFP
Stony Brook, NY
Arch Fam Med. 1993;2(3):242-244.
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I would like to tell you how disappointed I was with the Editorial by John Lee Clowe, MD, that opened the first issue of the ARCHIVES.1 Clowe's comments promulgate many myths about the specialty of family practice and seem to echo a philosophy that may be the hopes of organized medicine embodied in the American Medical Association, but certainly is not the vision we as family physicians have for our patients and ourselves.
The role of family physician as patient advocate is unquestionable. However, continued emphasis on family physicians as "case managers," medical social workers, and interpreters of the words and actions of other specialties is overemphasized and overstated. Perhaps some feel that by relegating family physicians to the role of referralists they will ensure a continued flow of patients through the family physician's office to receive services from other specialists.
Clowe should be made aware that family physicians
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