PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - J. J. C. Cormack TI - Family portraits—a method of recording family history DP - 1975 Jul 01 TA - The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners PG - 520--526 VI - 25 IP - 156 4099 - http://bjgp.org/content/25/156/520.short 4100 - http://bjgp.org/content/25/156/520.full SO - J R Coll Gen Pract1975 Jul 01; 25 AB - Family doctors are particularly concerned with family relationships. Family relationships are generally poorly recorded in general practice in the traditional records. Conversion to A4 folders in the practice provided an opportunity to develop a diagramatic representation of family structure and thus create for each patient a family `portrait.'