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How a Family Care Physician Can Save Your Life

Hitchcock Family Medicine

According to Healthcare IT News, just 67% of millennials have a primary care physician. In fact, there are several ways that a family care physician can save your life. From treating personal injuries to helping prevent disease, your physician can do more things than you realize.

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8 Reasons Why Family Physicians are the Actual Stars of Medicine

Family Medicine Initiative

6 This graph shows the association between primary care physician density and life expectancy among US states: 3. Having Your Own Long-Term GP Can Save Your Life Patients who choose a GP rather than a specialist as their primary care provider have a 19% 8 lower mortality and produce 22% 9 -33% 8 lower healthcare spending.