id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_66ut2kchonhthbghgn53mtr7u4 W. B. Ventres How I Think: Perspectives on Process, People, Politics, and Presence 2012.0 7 .pdf application/pdf 5344 1004 77 The author, a seasoned midcareer family physician, summarizes his personal practice philosophy as it that family physicians can best bring their signature presences to their encounters with patients and Keywords: Culture, Family Medicine, Medical Education, Narrative, Philosophy, Primary Care attending to their patients.9,10 The British practitioners Iona Heath and John Launer astutely reviewed the roles of family physicians as witnesses to They omitted some important aspects of how I think about patients and their presenting concerns. suggested valuable ways to approach office encounters efficiently without compromising patient-centered care.18 –20 a medical "system."26 Rather, I refer to how I negotiate power within my relationships with patients, families, and other practitioners given the of practice suggest that some hold radically different views of either the patients and families to care.33,34 I also know that in their work with patients they have had clinical successes and failures, ./cache/work_66ut2kchonhthbghgn53mtr7u4.pdf ./txt/work_66ut2kchonhthbghgn53mtr7u4.txt