Voices from family medicine: Theodore Phillips. Interview by William B. Ventres and John J. Frey.

Fam Med · 1992

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Abstract

Ted Phillips has had a remarkable career in medicine. He practiced in a rural Alaskan town, helped build the University of Washington's Department of Family Medicine as its founding chair, labored as an associate and acting dean at the university, and, more recently, returned to clinical practice part time on a small island in Washington state and travels to the University of Washington to direct the course on introduction to clinical medicine. Dr. Phillips was president of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine in 1978-1979 and received the Society's Certificate of Excellence in 1981. He currently serves as the only community-based physician on the National Advisory Council of the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research. This transcript is an abridged version of interviews conducted in April and June 1992.