I am a Doctor, trained in the Department of Family Medicine, the broadest specialty in medicine, which forms the first line of defense for the patient. My view of patient care is oriented to the patient rather than the disease, and my concern is in the continuing welfare of the patient in the full context of his life situation rather than the episodic care of a presenting complaint. As rightly described in the words of Harvey Cushing “A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - they must view the man in his world” and I strongly believe that a doctor should be the personal physician, oriented to the whole patient.