PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Anthony S. Dixon TI - Family medicine—at a loss for words? DP - 1983 Jun 01 TA - The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners PG - 358--363 VI - 33 IP - 251 4099 - http://bjgp.org/content/33/251/358.short 4100 - http://bjgp.org/content/33/251/358.full SO - J R Coll Gen Pract1983 Jun 01; 33 AB - Family medicine is an emerging discipline, in the process of generating a literature and language of its own. This paper explores the ways in which language can both facilitate and inhibit changes in the way the world is seen and thought about.