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  2. What a General Practitioner Is and When to See One - WebMD

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    General practitioners provide acute, chronic, and follow-up care to their patients. Their duties include assessing you with a physical exam and a review of your medical history. From there, they ...

  3. Aetna - Wikipedia

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    Aetna Inc. (/ ˈ ɛ t n ə / ET-nə) is an American managed health care company that sells traditional and consumer directed health care insurance and related services, such as medical, pharmaceutical, dental, behavioral health, long-term care, and disability plans, primarily through employer-paid (fully or partly) insurance and benefit programs, and through Medicare.

  4. American and British English spelling differences - Wikipedia

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    British and other Commonwealth English use the ending -logue while American English commonly uses the ending -log for words like analog (ue), catalog (ue), dialog (ue), homolog (ue), etc, etymologically derived from Greek -λόγος -logos ("one who speaks (in a certain manner)").

  5. Critical, Stable, or Fair: Defining Patient Conditions - WebMD

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    In the media, hospital terms that describe a patient’s condition -- like critical, fair, serious, stable -- are vague by design. They give you just a general sense of how someone is doing, which ...

  6. Healthcare in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Affordable Health Care for America (H.R. 3962) America's Affordable Health Choices (H.R. 3200) Baucus Health Bill (S. 1796) Proposed. American Health Care Act (2017) Medicare for All Act (2021, H.R. 1976) Healthy Americans Act (2007, 2009) Health Security Act (H.R. 3600) Latest enacted. Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590) Health Care and Education ...

  7. Types of Doctors: PCP vs. Family Doctor vs. Internist

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    The term “primary care practitioner (PCP)” refers to any of the following types of medical professionals: family medicine practitioner. nurse practitioner. physician assistant. internist ...

  8. What Is a Primary Care Physician? - WebMD

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    Your primary care doctor is who you can turn to if you have the flu, need vaccinations, want to quit smoking, need to manage your diabetes, or want to lose weight. They are trained to handle all ...

  9. Physician - Wikipedia

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    Physician. A physician, medical practitioner ( British English ), medical doctor, or simply doctor is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the study, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease, injury, and other physical and mental impairments.