Family medicine
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Family medicine is a medical specialty that provides continuing and comprehensive health care for the individual and family across all ages, sexes, diseases, and parts of the body. The specialist, who
Family physician (right) reviewing a case with nurse (left) in clinic
Paper based patient records at Whalsay Health Centre 2012
General practitioner
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A general practitioner is a doctor who practices general medicine. GPs have distinct expertise and experience in providing whole person medical care, whilst managing the complexity, uncertainty and ri
Family medicine
…physician, is called a family physician. In certain countries family medicine is synonymous with general practice (with those who practice known as a general practitioner), though in other countries, this is a distinct field than Family medicine. Historically, the role of Family doctors was once performed by any doctor…
GPs provide personal, family, and community-orientated comprehensive primary care that includes diagnosis, continues over time and is anticipatory as well as responsive
Francisco Vallés (Divino Vallés)
GPs in the United Kingdom may operate in community health centres.
A general practitioner's office in 1940