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Practitioners of family medicine provide “comprehensive medical care with particular emphasis on the family unit, in which the physician’s continuing responsibility for health care is limited neither by the patient’s age nor sex nor a particular organ system or disease entity” (official definition by American Academy of Family Practice). As such, they may be the only type of primary care physician who tend to have an opportunity to encounter patients with a full range of sexual complaints. Yet, family practitioners are inadequately prepared to deal effectively with these patients, since the curriculum in human sexuality is usually a token introduction to sexual anatomy, physiology, and pathology.
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Grose, N.P., Shelp, E.E. (1987). Human Sexuality: Counselling and Treatment in a Family Medicine Practice. In: Shelp, E.E. (eds) Sexuality and Medicine. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 23. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-3943-2_9
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