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A Public Celebration of a Personal Doctor
Larry A. Green , and colleagues
In this essay, two family doctors share the experience of seeing a community celebrate the life of their doctor. The stories shared by community members provided powerful testimony to the value that personal doctoring offers to patients, families, communities, and to the future. The authors call for innovations - such as health care reform, health care system change, and practice redesign - to empower personal doctoring.