Living in the community

Toward Medical Care that Supports People's Life

Abstract

  This article is based on my personal experiences as a physician. As a new physician in the community, I had a hard time gaining acceptance in the community. By walking around the region on my own, learning the region's unique dialect, and learning about the lives and lifestyles of the people who live there, I considered what it means for me to be accepted into the community. What made it possible for me to deal with the region in this way was the perspective of anthropology I learned as a student, in which I questioned what was natural to me and relativized my position and course of being. This article aims to look forward to the collaboration between anthropology and community medicine as a practice that will help physicians deepen their self-awareness.