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Nutrition, Education, and Family Physicians
J. Lloyd Michener, MD
Arch Fam Med. 1997;6(2):146-147.
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PRIMARY CARE physicians, and family physicians in particular, are increasingly expected to play key roles in providing patient education and counseling for preventable disease. The reason is simple and pragmatic: physicians can be powerful motivators for changing patients' behavior.1 The need for active education by physicians is particularly great in counseling outpatients with elevated cholesterol.2 Reported in this issue of the ARCHIVES are 2 major projects to improve the ability of primary care physicians to help their patients reduce their cholesterol levels.3, 4 The results are both discouraging and illuminating.
The first report is the culmination of a multiyear attempt to implement the recommendations of the National Cholesterol Education Program in routine practice at community and rural health centers across central North Carolina and Virginia.3 That controlled study is notable for the many efforts in identifying and overcoming barriers to nutrition counseling in busy practices.
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Author Affiliations
Duke University Medical Center Durham, NC
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