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Patient/Family Profile

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Fundamentals of Family Medicine

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Knowing the patient and his family in illness and health, the family physician develops a patient/family profile that assists him in interpreting symptoms, intervening to promote health, and predicting the further course of individual and family function. The patient/family profile is the sum of the physician’s knowledge of the patient and his family. It is data that the physician uses as background in evaluating the patient’s complaints and problems, developing a comprehensive problem list, and devising treatment and management strategies. It is “knowing the patient and the family.”

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  1. John W. Beasley
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  2. Randall L. Longenecker
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Editors and Affiliations

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

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

  2. Department of Family Medicine Health Sciences Center, State University of New York at Stony Brook School of Medicine, Stony Brook, New York, 11794, USA

    Melville G. Rosen M.D. (Professor and Chairman) (Professor and Chairman)

  3. Department of Family Practice, University of Minnesota School of Medicine, Duluth and Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

    William E. Jacott M.D.

  4. Department of Family and Community Medicine, The University of Kansas School of Medicine—Wichita, 1001 North Minneapolis, Wichita, Kansas, 67214, USA

    E. P. Donatelle M.D. (Professor and Chairman) (Professor and Chairman)

  5. Department of Family Practice, University of Alabama School of Medicine East End Memorial Hospital, Birmingham, Alabama, 35206, USA

    John L. Buckingham M.D., M.P.H. (Director of the Family Practice Residency) (Director of the Family Practice Residency)

  6. Lakeside Medical Center, 4621 East Superior Street, Duluth, Minnesota, 55804, USA

    William E. Jacott M.D.

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Beasley, J.W., Longenecker, R.L. (1983). Patient/Family Profile. In: Taylor, R.B., Rosen, M.G., Jacott, W.E., Donatelle, E.P., Buckingham, J.L. (eds) Fundamentals of Family Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5433-1_31

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