Contributed by :Dr. Vivek Gopalakrishnan BHMS, NDH (NZ) -
Family medicine (FM) is a clinical medical specialty which is devoted to the
comprehensive health care for people of all ages and provides continuing and
comprehensive health care for the individual and family across all ages, genders,
diseases, and parts of the body.FM has been developed as a counterculture in
response to rapid fragmentation of medical care during post second world war period
into specialty and subspecialty care in the much of the developed world. The concept
evolved as a concept of medical care to cater to the growing demand of the people for
personalized, continued, and comprehensive care. Family therapy, family tree
