Sacrificing patient care for prevention: distortion of the role of general practice

Affiliations

¹ Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, UMass Chan Medical School, Barre Family Health Center, Barre, MA, USA.
² General Practice, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden minna.johansson@vgregion.se.
³ Global Center for Sustainable Healthcare.
⁴ Royal College of General Practitioners, London, UK.
⁵ University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
⁶ Department of Family Medicine, University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada.

Stephen A Martin et al. BMJ. 2025.

. 2025 Jan 21:388:e080811.

doi: 10.1136/bmj-2024-080811.

¹ Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, UMass Chan Medical School, Barre Family Health Center, Barre, MA, USA.
² General Practice, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden minna.johansson@vgregion.se.
³ Global Center for Sustainable Healthcare.
⁴ Royal College of General Practitioners, London, UK.
⁵ University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
⁶ Department of Family Medicine, University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada.

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