Ian McWhinney and the doctor-patient relationship

Near the end of my training in family medicine, in my first few months of independent practice, I read 2 classic books about medicine that guided me as I tried to navigate the new challenges of dealing with patient complexity on a day-to-day basis. The first book was Dr Michael Balint’s The Doctor

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Canadian Family Physician
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2026-02-01
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https://doi.org/10.46747/cfp.720284
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Mental Health and Psychiatry
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Ian McWhinney and the doctor-patient relationship

Alan Ng Cheng Hin
Canadian Family Physician
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Alan Ng Cheng Hin
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Abstract

Near the end of my training in family medicine, in my first few months of independent practice, I read 2 classic books about medicine that guided me as I tried to navigate the new challenges of dealing with patient complexity on a day-to-day basis. The first book was Dr Michael Balint’s The Doctor

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