Storylines of family medicine IX: people and places-diverse populations and locations of care

William B Ventres; Leslie A Stone; Emad R Abou-Arab; Julio Meza; David S Buck; Jerome W Crowder; Jennifer Y C Edgoose; Alexander Brown; Ellen J Plumb; Amber K Norris; Jay J Allen; Lauren E Giammar; John E Wood; Scott M Dickson; G Austin Brown

doi:10.1136/fmch-2024-002826

Storylines of family medicine IX: people and places-diverse populations and locations of care

Fam Med Community Health. 2024 Apr 12;12(Suppl 3):e002826. doi: 10.1136/fmch-2024-002826.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Family and Preventive Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA wventres@uams.edu.
² Family and Preventive Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.
³ Family Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
⁴ Family Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA.
⁵ Community Medicine, University of Houston, Tilman J Fertitta Family College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.
⁶ Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Houston, Tilman J Fertitta Family College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.
⁷ Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
⁸ NH Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency, Concord, New Hampshire, USA.
⁹ San Francisco VA Medical Center, San Francisco, California, USA.
¹⁰ Duluth Family Medicine Residency Program, University of Minnesota Medical School Duluth Campus, Duluth, Minnesota, USA.
¹¹ UAMS Northeast Regional Campus Family Medicine Residency Program, Jonesboro, Arkansas, USA.
¹² Cascades East Family Medicine Residency Program, Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine, Klamath Falls, Oregon, USA.

Abstract

Storylines of Family Medicine is a 12-part series of thematically linked mini-essays with accompanying illustrations that explore the many dimensions of family medicine as interpreted by individual family physicians and medical educators in the USA and elsewhere around the world. In 'IX: people and places-diverse populations and locations of care', authors address the following themes: 'LGBTQIA+health in family medicine', 'A family medicine approach to substance use disorders', 'Shameless medicine for people experiencing homelessness', '''Difficult" encounters-finding the person behind the patient', 'Attending to patients with medically unexplained symptoms', 'Making house calls and home visits', 'Family physicians in the procedure room', 'Robust rural family medicine' and 'Full-spectrum family medicine'. May readers appreciate the breadth of family medicine in these essays.

Keywords: Clinical Medicine; Community Medicine; Family Medicine; General Practice; Rural Health.

MeSH terms

Family Practice
House Calls
Humans
Medically Unexplained Symptoms*
Physicians, Family
Sexual and Gender Minorities*