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The type of basic health care that would be delivered by a general practitioner. Managed care organizations often use primary care physicians as "gatekeepers" to control which patients are treated by specialists. Areas of primary care include internal medicine, family/general practice, pediatrics, and obstetrics/gynecology.
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"Primary care" means the practice of general or family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology. [1981, c. 693, §§5, 8 (new).]
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| primary care physician |
A licensed general practitioner of medicine, as contrasted with a surgeon, who provides health care for commonly encountered medical problems.
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Primary Care is the first care a patient receives. It is often a family physician, although patients also may receive Primary Care from a nurse, a paramedic, or other types of health-care providers, depending on the situation. Managed care systems try to resolve as many health problems as possible at this level.
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Basic or general health care focused on the point at which a patient ideally first seeks assistance from the medical care system. Primary care is considered comprehensive when the primary provider enters into a sustained partnership with the patient to take responsibility for the overall coordination for the care of the patient
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