Practical Pointers in Medicine Over Seven Decades: Reflections of an Individual Physician

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Author(s): Richard James (Davidson, USA)
Copyright: 2011
Pages: 11
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.ch013

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

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This chapter illustrates a life in medical practice and emphasizes the importance of lifelong learning in medicine through sharing of lived experiences. The life narratives display the authors own observations of what he has learned and unlearned over the years. Also added are observations about his retirement project - editing and publishing abstracts of the current primary care medicine literature - that exemplifies the need for health care professionals to continue sharing life-long.

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