For many family doctors, the work they love to do most includes taking care of the sickest patients, the ones that make them feel like a “true doctor”; forming long-term therapeutic relationships with them; and practicing holistic medicine, i.e. having consistent opportunities to treat the entirety of the patient, keeping them healthy instead of seeing them only when they are sick. In other words, what they love to do most involves making an impact, forging human connections, and exhibiting their brainpower. When they cannot do this traditional work they love, many have a difficult time reimagining how they can achieve career fulfillment in new ways. This is facilitated by a training system for family doctors that can mislead them in terms of what is possible for their careers, and what makes a “true” family doctor.
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