We often experience time as a commodity-in excess for those who suffer; in scarcity for those who minister to them. But it is also a teacher, a tool, and a generous yardstick for measuring one's career-if we take the time to reflect on it. This is an essay about time and timing as a doctor negotiates the practice of medicine.
Keywords: Doctoring; Family Medicine; Family Physician; Health Care Delivery; Personal Physician; Population Health; Primary Care; Professionalism; Social Justice.
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