The U.S. takes the opposite approach by emphasizing the specialist rather than the primary care physician.
Your "primary care physician" is wearing the pants you gave to Goodwill last month.
The primary care physician acts as a gatekeeper to the medical system.
Crippling health care bills, long emergency-room waits and the inability to find a primary care physician just scratch the surface of the problems that patients face daily.
INform YOUR DOCTOR Communicating with an employee's primary care physician can be one of the biggest challenges in running a successful program.
In Norway, poor physician distribution between urban and rural areas has been persistent, particularly in the north, where in 1997 a total of 28% of the primary care physician positions were vacant.
Persons who think they might be suffering from a sleep disorder are encouraged to consult with their primary care physician, who will refer them to a sleep specialist.
Diagnosis is primarily through an evaluation by the primary care physician, who can assess how likely the patient is to have a problem by feeling the pulses in the neck arteries or in the legs.
Those who think they might hae a sleep disorder are urged to discuss their problem with their primary care physician, who will issue a referral to a sleep specialist.
A specialist who performs a procedure in a 30-minute visit can be paid three times more than a primary care physician using that same 30 minutes to discuss a patient's disease.
In the survey, two sets of questions were sent to primary care physicians around the United States.
Many men experience "depression without sadness," which makes it more challenging for primary care physicians to make the diagnosis of depression.
The startling finding was that the average Medicare patient saw a total of seven doctors—two primary care physicians and five specialists—in a given year.
