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Hospitals, clinics, emergency departments, long-term care. Family medicine[note 1] is a medical specialty within primary care that provides continuing and comprehensive health care for the individual and family across all ages, genders, diseases, and parts of the body. [2][3] The specialist, who is usually a primary care physician, is named a ...
A general practitioner (GP) or family physician is a doctor who is a consultant in general practice. GPs provide personal, family, and community-orientated comprehensive primary care that includes diagnosis, continues over time and is anticipatory as well as responsive. GPs have distinct expertise and experience in providing whole person ...
Formerly called. American Academy of General Practice. The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) was founded in 1947 to promote and maintain high-quality standards for family medicine, an offshoot of the classical general practitioner. It is headquartered in Leawood, Kansas.
A patient having his blood pressure measured. A primary care physician (PCP) is a physician who provides both the first contact for a person with an undiagnosed health concern as well as continuing care of varied medical conditions, not limited by cause, organ system, or diagnosis. The term is primarily used in the United States.
Physician. A physician, medical practitioner (British English), medical doctor, or simply doctor is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the study, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease, injury, and other physical and mental impairments.
Logo. The World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA) is a global not-for-profit professional organization representing family physicians and general practitioners from all regions of the world. WONCA's mission is to improve the quality of life of the people of the world through high standards of care in general practice/family medicine.
Theodor Kocher (1841–1917) — thyroid surgery; first surgeon to win the Nobel Prize. Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec (1781–1826) — inventor of the stethoscope. Janet Lane-Claypon (1877–1967) — pioneer of epidemiology. Thomas Linacre (1460–1524) — founder of Royal College of Physicians.
MLS Cup 1999 was the fourth edition of the MLS Cup, the championship match of Major League Soccer (MLS), the top-level soccer league of the United States. It took place on November 21, 1999, at Foxboro Stadium (pictured) in Foxborough, Massachusetts, and was contested by D.C. United and the Los Angeles Galaxy in a rematch of the inaugural 1996 final played at the same venue.