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Community-Oriented Primary Care in a Brave New World
Patrick J. O'Connor, MD, MPH
Arch Fam Med. 1994;3(6):493-494.
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As A FAMILY PHYSICIAN, I have always known that health depends on many factors that have little to do with what goes on within my examining rooms. Before I attended medical school, I was skeptical of the biomedical model, with its blatant scientific reductionism. The curriculum seemed so limiting that I sought additional training at a school of public health to better appreciate how community and other intangibles affect health.
I was not alone. Many in my generation of residents had these same great thoughts. We worked in clinics that served Medicaid recipients and the medically indigent. We challenged authority in all its guises. We insisted on making home visits. We learned how to combine scientific excellence with a humanistic, community-oriented approach to patient care.
To us, and to many others, the concept of community-oriented primary care (COPC) was as natural as the air we breathed. It made sense.
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Author Affiliations
Group Health Foundation Minneapolis, Minn
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