The Time of Our Lives: A Perspective from the Keystone IV Conference

J Am Board Fam Med. 2016 Jul-Aug:29 Suppl 1:S28-31. doi: 10.3122/jabfm.2016.S1.150385.

Abstract

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.

MeSH terms

  • Family Practice / methods*
  • Humans
  • Physician-Patient Relations*
  • Physicians, Family / psychology*
  • Primary Health Care / methods*
  • Time Factors