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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. 21 More than 45% of primary care patients have multimorbidity (based on 700,000 US patients). GPs improve chronic disease management, which prevents complications.