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Primary Care, Consultation, and Referral

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All the care of the family cannot be met by a single physician. When more specialized care is needed, the continuum of care extends into the arena of consultation and referral.

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  1. Joseph E. Ross
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  2. Daniel M. Barr
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  1. Department of Family and Community Medicine, Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University, 300 South Hawthorne Road, 27103, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA

    Robert B. Taylor M.D. (Professor) (Professor)

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Ross, J.E., Barr, D.M. (1983). Primary Care, Consultation, and Referral. In: Taylor, R.B. (eds) Family Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4002-8_36

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