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Integrating mental health into primary care: a global perspective.

Wonca Uk
TLDR
Some of the debates reminded me about themes I had been taking for granted and reminded me that family medicine is an emancipated field of medicine and no longer needed to debate this position.
Abstract
Some of the debates reminded me about themes I had been taking for granted. For example, Svab and van Weels’ negative position on ‘Family Medicine should refine its essential attributes’ reminded me that family medicine is an emancipated field of medicine and no longer needed to debate this position (been there, done that). Furthermore, family medicine should get on with improving its image and be rid of ‘the harmful benefits of extreme complexity, uniqueness, exclusivity, and threat’.

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