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Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine 8/2018

01-08-2018 | Healing Arts: Materia Medica

On the Value of the Primary Care Physician

Author: Brent W. Beasley, MD

Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine | Issue 8/2018

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She called me Brent and I called her Martha. Yes, that’s her real name, not a pseudonym, and I asked her family if I could use it in this piece. It’s important, because it was her name. Martha and I moved beyond the patient-physician relationship to friendship. It was a winter-summer connection, as she was 97 and I was 49. I cared for her a majority of my career at that point, but those 16 years were a little less than 16% of her life. And at 97, the time for her was flying by. …
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Metadata
Title
On the Value of the Primary Care Physician
Author
Brent W. Beasley, MD
Publication date
01-08-2018
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Journal of General Internal Medicine / Issue 8/2018
Print ISSN: 0884-8734
Electronic ISSN: 1525-1497
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-018-4380-3

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