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General Practice as an essential part of a socially responsible health care system
Iona Heath“Primary Care and Family Medicine:
Practical Implementation Challenges”
8th June 2009Holiday Inn, Silom, Bangkok
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gift of history
specialist/generalist divide
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Apothecaries Act 1815
Medical Act 1858
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The physician and surgeon retained the hospital but the general practitioner retained the patient.
Stevens R. Medical Practice in Modern
England. Yale University Press, 1966
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In hospitals, the diseases stay and the people come and go; in general practice, the people stay and the diseases come and go.
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Power of scientific
medicine for both good and harm
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•A human being is both a subject and an object;
•Illness is different from disease;
•Demand is different from need.
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•A human being is both a subject and an object;
•Illness is different from disease;
•Demand is different from need.
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- the prevailing commitment to accurate diagnosis of disease - which is the hallmark of the modern physician - turns on the notion that there is a pure disease state which is, ideally, distinct from the patient. Thus, the patient is seen as a kind of “translucent screen” on which the disease is projected. In consequence, ... the patient's subjective experiencing of illness is ignored in favor of an objective, quantitative account of a disease state. S. Kay Toombs
The meaning of illness: a phenomenological account of the different perspectives of physician and patient., 1993
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- individual and closely intimate recognition is required on both a physical and psychological level.
John BergerA Fortunate Man, 1967
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- the mystery of the individual is precisely what must be put into the facts to make them meaningful.
Boris PasternakDr Zhivago, 1958
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Doctor Patient
Subject
Object
The body as object: gaze of biomedical science; what this patient has in common
with other patients (normative monological)
The body as subject: what is unique for this person; life context, story and meaning systems (dialogical)
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Theory … grows out of particular circumstances and, however abstract, is validated by its power to order them in their full particularity, not by stripping that particularity away. Clifford Geertz
Available Light - Anthropological reflections on philosophical topics,
2000
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uncertainty
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None of us - generalists all, working in an open system of human interaction can afford the luxury of certainty, or even near certainty.Stevens J.
Brief encounter.J Roy Coll Gen Pract 1974; 24:
5-22.
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•A human being is both a subject and an object;
•Illness is different from disease;
•Demand is different from need.
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Stressful life experience
Illness Disease
Disease requiring hospital
treatment
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Power of scientific
medicine for both good and harm
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The strength of a country's primary care system was negatively associated with (a) all-cause mortality, (b) all-cause premature mortality, and (c) cause-specific premature mortality from asthma and bronchitis, emphysema and pneumonia, cardiovascular disease, and heart disease. Macinko J, Starfield B, Shi L.
Health Services Research 2003; 38: 831-865.
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•A human being is both a subject and an object;
•Illness is different from disease;
•Demand is different from need.
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social solidarity
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fear
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Schwartz LM, Woloshin S. Changing disease definitions: implications for disease prevalence
analysis of the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988–1994. Effective Clinical
Practice 1999;2:76–85.
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32 million more patients
Three quarters of the total adult population
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need
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needs of the individual
needs of the population
GP
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•caution•doubt•frugality
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Contemporaneous and time-lagged primary care physician-to-population ratios were significantly associated with lower all-cause mortality, whereas specialty care measures were associated with higher mortality.
Shi L, Macinko J, Starfield B, et al. The relationship between primary care, income
inequality, and mortality in US States, 1980-1995.
J Am Board Fam Pract 2003;16:412-22.
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illnessdisease
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Sustaining generalism:
•College•Teamwork
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College:• identity and self-confidence•equivalent status•mutual respect•training, education, standards•examination set and
assessed by generalists
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Teamwork:
•a seamed service•interprofessionalism
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Primary Care Team
• general practitioners• nurses
– practice– home– older people– children and babies
• midwife• pharmacist• interpreters
• social worker• money, benefit,
employment adviser• administrator• reception and
clerical staff• secretaries• trainee professionals
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- the most fascinating and absorbing and rewarding job in the world. S Taylor
Good general practice 1954