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How a Family Care Physician Can Save Your Life

Hitchcock Family Medicine

Comprehensive Care General practitioners provide a wide range of services. This doctor can see patients for common ailments, vaccines, or medical conditions. You may see your general practitioner for a referral to someone else, such as a psychologist, for a mental illness.

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8 Reasons Why Family Physicians are the Actual Stars of Medicine

Family Medicine Initiative

As a general practitioner and primary care researcher, it was always fascinating for me to delve into the scientific literature to investigate this issue. Adherence to medical advice improves and unnecessary self-referrals to other doctors decrease. Is that appropriate, or should it be the opposite? Here are the key results.