Electrocardiography and the family doctor.

Family Doctor

The family doctor, his life and history

and science fulfil similar functions". As he says, "The human brain needs to have a representation of the world that is unified and coherent." In his discussion of evolution Jacob is an out-and-out Darwinian, but gives a good analysis of the problems raised by molecular biology. He contrasts the selectionist Darwinian model with the instructionist theories of creationists. As an immunologist, h...

Patient, Hospital, and Family Doctor

DiSSATISFIrn doctors often complain that the status of the family doctor is being steadily lowered and that he will soon be nothing more than a writer of notes directing patients to different hospital departments. The investigation described here is an account of the patients referred to hospital in one particular practice over a period of twelve months. Not much has been published on this topi...

The Future of the Family Doctor

"Throughout the world the cost of modern hospital care is giving cause for alarm ... We are, in fact, spending proportionately less than we were on domiciliary medical care. .. This is a shortsighted policy. Unless the family doctor can do his work efficiently, the cost of the hospital service will be bound to rise." These opening phrases must challenge everyone who does not see medicine only i...

The Role of the Family Doctor.

Two documents appear in this issue of SA Family Practice. The role of the General Practitioner,/Family Physician in Hcalth Care Systems, contains the studied and well considered views of the World Organisation of Family Doctors' and the other, The Role of the Doctor in Primarv Health Care'. the views of a broad ipectrum of leading S African cloctors. In 1992 we hope to move both nationally and ...