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How a Family Care Physician Can Save Your Life

Hitchcock Family Medicine

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. Prompt treatment for personal injuries is critical, and you shouldn't have to wait in an emergency room for hours on end.

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Readers Endorse Doctor Migration and Shun ‘Elderspeak’

Physician's Weekly

Walk-in clinics are overbooked, the emergency rooms at the hospitals all have overfull waiting rooms and doctors and nurses are doing 12-hour or longer shifts. We do not have a director of national health preaching against the use of vaccination. They gave me another referral and reported the practice to Medicare.