Multiple Paths in Health Care

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Author(s): Susan D. Ross (Consultant Internal Medicine, USA)
Copyright: 2011
Pages: 12
Source title: User-Driven Healthcare and Narrative Medicine: Utilizing Collaborative Social Networks and Technologies
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Rakesh Biswas (People’s College of Medical Sciences, India)and Carmel Mary Martin (Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Canada)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-097-6.ch008

Keywords: Health Information Systems / Medical Information Science Reference / Medicine & Healthcare

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The personal experience of Medicine by each physician is the product of a large number of dynamic and diverse factors: inborn talents and deficiencies, social and cultural environments, type of schooling, exposure to teachers and mentors, colleagues, family and friends, and of course, perhaps most important of all, encounters with patients. Many of these influences are beyond the direct control of the physician, and nearly all continue to change throughout a lifetime. Out of this seemingly random and chaotic mix of influences, each physician develops his or her own highly unique, and ever evolving understanding of what it means to practice Medicine today.

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