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  2. Family medicine - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Primary care physician - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Primary care - Wikipedia

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    Primary care may be provided in community health centres. Primary care is a model of health care that supports first-contact, accessible, continuous, comprehensive and coordinated person-focused care. It aims to optimise population health and reduce disparities across the population by ensuring that subgroups have equal access to services.

  5. Opinion - A FAIR chance for all future doctors - AOL

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    These future doctors of osteopathic medicine (DOs) are critical to our healthcare system, filling important roles in primary care specialties like family medicine or pediatrics, where more than ...

  6. Medical specialty - Wikipedia

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    Medical specialty. A medical specialty is a branch of medical practice that is focused on a defined group of patients, diseases, skills, or philosophy. Examples include those branches of medicine that deal exclusively with children (paediatrics), cancer (oncology), laboratory medicine (pathology), or primary care (family medicine).

  7. General practitioner - Wikipedia

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    General practitioner. 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 ...

  8. Internal medicine - Wikipedia

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    Internal medicine. Internal medicine, also known as general internal medicine in Commonwealth nations, is a medical specialty for medical doctors focused on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of internal diseases in adults. Medical practitioners of internal medicine are referred to as internists, or physicians in Commonwealth nations. [1]

  9. Physicians in the United States - Wikipedia

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    As of 2018, there were over 985,000 practicing physicians in the United States. 90.6% have an MD degree, and 76% were educated in the United States. 64% were male. 82% were licensed in a medical specialty. 22% held active licenses in two or more states. [8][10] The percentage of females skews younger. In 2018, 33% of female physicians were ...