What does Comprehensive Care look like?
Nerio Enrique Romero Gonzalez
Full professor (Emeritus), Universidad del Zulia (LUZ) (Venezuela) Academic Numerary, Zulia State Academy of History (Venezuela) Author: “Practicing Comprehensive Family Medicine. Fundamentals, Tools and Cases" (2022)
Nerio Enrique Romero, MD
Full Professor (Emeritus) in Family Medicine, University of Zulia
There is a variety of resources such as clinical guides, activities checklists, and competencies inventories, that aim to define comprehensive care and provide guidance to practitioners. A magic recipe does not exist as it depends on our way of thinking (which is often subject to diversity), but also on location, culture, health systems, services management, resources, people’s ideas about healthcare, etc. All those factors frequently tend to make comprehensive care an elusive concept, and that happens both in medical practice and medical education.
Even knowing that, we can draw on our own family medicine/GP principles and experiences to form a clear picture of comprehensive care, a dynamic one, hopefully like a motion picture. That is important because, how many times have we discussed or thought about what comprehensive care looks like? And ... hasn’t confusion and/or disagreement emerged? For family medicine/GP, comprehensiveness is one of the major guiding stars to follow in order to have a successful navigation during stormy times of change.
Our book "Practicing Comprehensive Family Medicine" shows a clear and dynamic picture of comprehensiveness, illustrating it with examples of case management for the complete, continuous process of patient care and for the application of nine key tools. We invite you to see our approach to this crucial issue, written not only from a theoretical but especially from a practical perspective:
The book is now worldwide available, in printed and digital versions. Take a look at it through Amazon pages, and should you be interested, order and acquire it in a very easy way (Notice: some Amazon branches dispatch only the digital version which has, by the way, lower prices and quicker deliveries).
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Nerio Enrique Romero, MD
Full Professor (Emeritus) in Family Medicine, University of Zulia
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Full professor (Emeritus), Universidad del Zulia (LUZ) (Venezuela) Academic Numerary, Zulia State Academy of History (Venezuela) Author: “Practicing Comprehensive Family Medicine. Fundamentals, Tools and Cases" (2022)
2yThanks a lot for you all who have recommended and shared this article, and who have ordered the book. Have merry holidays!
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2yIgual pienso que la integralidad en la mirada hacia el paciente es vital en nuestra especialidad pero debiera ser aplicada en todas porque eso derivaría en una mejor calidad de atención al que acude a vernos. Gracias por compartir y ojalá y pueda leer el libro en algún momento.
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2yHola Nerio me encantó la imagen de pictures un motion, creo que es eso requiere verlo como un todo y es cierto lo de la separación de la práctica asistencial y la educación médica porque en el desarrollo de la didáctica hay tendencia a separar los procesos, aunque la vida me ha demostrado que es el estudiante quien gracias a la práctica en sí quién integra todo dentro de su cabeza y entonces es capaz de poner en movimiento esas partes...
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2yI share a lot of your ideas about the necessity to develop a comprehensive listening and attitude in relation to the patient best regards