Family Physician Referral Relationship Vaccination 
Permanente Medicine
JUNE 3, 2025
WM: Like you, I’m a family physician. The patient reached out to me and asked what I thought or recommended because I had built that relationship with that patient, I had built that trust. When you put in that referral, how do we make sure that that patient walks out with the specialty appointment versus phone tag.
Family Medicine Initiative
APRIL 10, 2024
This graph illustrates that the benefit of long-term GP-patient relationships is even dose-dependent (longer GP-patient-relationship = lower risk of dying prematurely): Why do long-term GP-patient relationships improve health and reduce costs? 11 , 13 Over time, GPs come to know their patients well. million Canadian patients).
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