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General Practice
Author(s) -
Harris Mark F,
Fisher Robert
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1993.tb138087.x
Subject(s) - global positioning system , scope (computer science) , general practice , scope of practice , public relations , nursing , engineering ethics , psychology , medical education , medicine , health care , political science , engineering , family medicine , computer science , law , telecommunications , programming language
The scope of general practice is so broad that almost all health innovations impact upon it. A specialist colleague recently commented to me that he did not know how general practitioners (GPs) could possibly keep abreast of the advances in medicine. Keeping up with everything new is certainly difficult and time‐consuming. The innovations with the most profound importance to general practice concern the way in which GPs interact with their patients, how the practice is organised and how the GP relates to other health workers and services. There has been considerable change in these in the past five years — the challenge now for GPs is to be the masters and not the servants of this change.