I grew up with the one-doctor–one-patient paradigm. WhenI admitted a patient, I took the case as my personal responsibility.I did my best to get to know the patient and his or her family,the medical problem at hand, and the best way to approach it.If this meant working without sleep, so be it — the patientcame first. As my practice migrated more toward intensive caremedicine, in which the approach to care is more team oriented,I retained a vestige of the old habits. Try as I might not todo so, I put more into . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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