TY  - JOUR
T1  - TErminating the physician-patient relationship in primary care
AU  - Freidin RB, Lazerson AM
Y1  - 1979/02/23
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1979.03290340037023
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 819
EP  - 822
VL  - 241
IS  - 8
N2  - Primary care and family practice training programs stress the importance of establishing and maintaining the physician-patient relationship in providing longitudinal health care. However, the limited duration of these three-year programs builds discontinuity into the relationship. To our knowledge, the process of terminating the physician-patient relationship in primary care practice has not been addressed in the medical literature. We studied eight different patterns of patients' responses to learning of the departure of their primary care physicians. We have developed a set of guidelines for terminating the physician-patient relationship in an ambulatory, primary care setting.(JAMA 241:819-822, 1979)
SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1979.03290340037023
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1979.03290340037023
ER  -