Bandaging society's wounds: a primary care perspective.
Our patients often carry heavy burdens into the examination room. With our standard questioning, we medically divide and define them into recognizable parts, but as pieces of a whole they resist healing. Can we regain a vision of health beyond the isolated individual to one who might belong to a larger community of concern?
Cutillo
Robert
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Inner City Health Center, Denver, CO, USA. robertc@innercityhealth.com
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