title: "I know this must have been a difficult day for you:" personal care in a patient-centered medical home.
abstract: In light of calls for a new model of care, family physicians are endeavoring to create a Patient-centered Medical Home. Yet, structures of care in themselves do not make a home; for the medical house to be a home requires physicians to demonstrate a personal touch that communicates caring to the patient. This essay describes one easily accomplished method by which to integrate personal care in a Patient-centered Medical Home.
authors.affiliation: Tacoma Family Medicine, 521 Martin Luther King Junior Way, Tacoma, WA 98405-4238, USA. tom.egnew@multicare.org
authors.forename: Thomas R
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: Egnew
mesh_terms: D005194:Family Practice / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D018802:Patient-Centered Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations