Medical Generalism, Now!

Preface

About the Author

Additional Contributors

Chapter 1: Principles of Whole Person Medicine

1.1 The purpose of Whole Person medicine. 1.2 The focus for whole person care: the Creative Self. 1.3 The goal of healthcare: enhancing health for daily living. 1.4 The work of healthcare: creating understanding in context. 1.5 The context of WP healthcare: complex interventions. 1.6 Summary.

Chapter 2. Wise Foundations: the knowledge work of practice

2.1 The knowledge work of clinical practice. 2.2 The knowledge work of specialist medicine. 2.3 The alternative knowledge work of generalist practice. 2.4 Barriers to generalism in action. 2.5 Generalism in action: the 4Es of best practice. 2.6 Advanced generalist practice: Emperor's new clothes?2.7 Knowledge work: the missing piece in person-centred healthcare redesign.

Chapter 3: Wise People - delivering the knowledge work of advanced generalist practice

3.1 The Flipped Consultation. 3.2 Goldilocks Medicine. 3.3 Heath's Generalist Gatekeeper or Guru. 3.4 Summary.

Chapter 4: Wise Places - practices supporting advanced generalist knowledge work

4.1 Enabling the work of advanced generalist practice: redesigning the generalist practice. 4.2 BOUNCEBACK: enabling knowledge work in context. 4.3 COMPLEX NEEDS: Enabling knowledge work in context for multimorbidity. 4.4 PACT: creating places for tailored care knowledge work. 4.5 Conclusions: Creating Wise Places.

Chapter 5: Wise Systems - the advanced generalist healthcare system

5.1 Setting the scene - New Public Management. 5.2 CATALYST - knowledge work drivers for system change, a workforce example. 5.3 TAILOR - knowledge work drivers for system change, a workplace example. 5.4 UNITED GENERALISM - a policy example. 5.5 Implications for Medical Generalism, now.

Chapter 6: Medical Generalism, Now

6.1 Starting in Primary Care. 6.2 Wise Policy. 6.3 Wise Practice. 6.4 Wise People. 6.5 Medical Generalism Now.

Chapter 7: Medical Generalism, everywhere?

Index.