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Family Practice Vol. 7, No. 2, 96-99
© Oxford University Press 1990

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The Care of Family Physicians and Their Families: A Study of Health and Help-Seeking Behaviour

MOSHE RENNERT*, LEA HAGOEL**, LEON EPSTEIN** and GALIA SHIFRONI**

*Brown Teaching Clinic in Family Medicine, Rommema Haifa, Israel
**Department of Family and Community Health, Faculty of Medicine—Technion and Kupat-Holim Haifa, Israel

Rennert M, Hagoel L, Epstein Land Shifroni G. The care of family physicians and their families: a study of health and help-seeking behaviour. Family Practice 1990; 7: 96–99.

Physicians in general are at risk for the development of stress, drug and alcohol abuse, as well as for suicide. Furthermore, the treatment of the sick physician is more difficult than that of a ‘regular’ patient. These difficulties may cause the postponement of diagnosis and treatment to critical stages of the disease. This paper presents a study of self-rated health and health-seeking behaviour of Israeli family physicians and their families. Our major finding is that two-thirds of the physicians do not have a regular family physician, and physicians who suffer from chronic diseases are even less likely to be treated than the ‘healthy’ ones. Twenty eight per cent of the physicians did not use any kind of medical consultation. However, each physician's family did receive some form of medical consultation, although in some cases this was not the usual form of medical care. The physicians who treated themselves tended to treat their own families and vice versa. Eighty-eight per cent of the physicians reported stress owing to their work (work overload, poor relationships with the medical team or with the patients), and 20% said that their work as physicians negatively affected their marital life. The relationship between the help-seeking behaviour of the family physician and the quality of care they give is as yet unclear. Various alternatives are raised for changing family physicians' behaviour as well as the primary care health system in order to possibly provide better care for the physicians and their families.


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