TY - JOUR T1 - Holistic Medicine JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 619 LP - 619 DO - 10.3399/bjgp10X515197 VL - 60 IS - 577 AU - Geoffrey Marsh Y1 - 2010/08/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/60/577/619.abstract N2 - He was not a frequent attender at the surgery. In fact I don't think I'd seen him before. He was forties, slightly built and if you were being kind you would say he was bright-eyed like a squirrel, but if you were unkind, rather ‘weasely’. He lived in one of the humbler estates in the practice.At the time — the late 1970s; those halcyon days of paper records and when doctors looked at their patients instead of their computer screens — the practice had decided to incorporate in our cherished A4 folders some elements of a social history. This included patient's marital status, household personnel, occupation, hobbies, and exercise as well as smoking and alcohol habits. We were well into holistic medicine — the up and coming craze! … ER -