Michael Huntley Faulkner: an appreciation

Autor: John Rawlinson
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Br J Gen Pract
ISSN: 1478-5242
0960-1643
DOI: 10.3399/bjgp19x706817
Popis: Michael Huntley Faulkner. It is a rare thing nowadays for a general practitioner to be in one practice for 35 years. ‘Portfolio’ GPs and all manner of part-time practitioners have become the norm, the chief element of the ‘part-timeness’ being perhaps the distinction between daytime practice and ‘out-of-hours’. When Michael Faulkner began his medical practice in Stokesley, North Yorkshire, 45 years ago, the life of a GP was set in a pattern relatively unchanged for many decades. There was still a feeling within the medical profession that a young doctor entering general practice did so because his entry into specialties had either been unsuccessful or, in the early stages of specialist training, disappointing. Not so with Mike Faulkner. His approach …
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