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This narrative explores my experience as a family doctor deeply embedded in a rural community comprising 9 villages. The regional cemetery, a symbol of mortality, serves as a focal point for meditations on what it means to bear witness as a family doctor, depicting some of the joys and sorrows I have witnessed over the last quarter of a century serving this community. Grounded in the philosophy of "to cure-sometimes, to relieve-often, and to comfort-always," I underscore the importance of presence and compassion in family medicine, ultimately embracing mortality as a shared human journey that shapes both patients and their caregivers.
期刊介绍:
The Annals of Family Medicine is a peer-reviewed research journal to meet the needs of scientists, practitioners, policymakers, and the patients and communities they serve.