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The Family Physician of the Future

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When one begins a chapter discussing “the future” in any aspect, one must approach it with humility and hope because such considered outcomes are based, as any physician knows, on probabilities. This holds true whether one is choosing an iron for the 9th hole or planning the future health care policies for a nation of people.

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  1. L. Robert Martin
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  1. Department of Family and Community Medicine Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest University, 300 South Hawthorne Road, 27103, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA

    Robert B. Taylor M.D.

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Martin, L.R. (1978). The Family Physician of the Future. In: Taylor, R.B. (eds) Family Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3999-2_94

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