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8 Reasons Why Family Physicians are the Actual Stars of Medicine

Family Medicine Initiative

GPs Improve Chronic Disease Management We live in a world of aging populations, with rising chronic diseases, multimorbidity, and polypharmacy. 21 More than 45% of primary care patients have multimorbidity (based on 700,000 US patients). 29 Source: OECD Health Statistics 2020 (without dental care) 29 8.