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  2. What's a Primary Care Physician (PCP)? - Healthline

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    A primary care physician is a medical doctor who’s trained to prevent, diagnose, and treat a broad array of illnesses and injuries in the general population. They can also perform regularly ...

  3. Primary health care - Wikipedia

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    Primary health care ( PHC) is "essential health care " that is based on scientifically sound and socially acceptable methods and technology. This makes universal health care accessible to all individuals and families in a community. PHC initiatives allow for the full participation of community members in implementation and decision making. [1]

  4. What Is Primary Care? Healthcare Services, Procedures, Doctors

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    Primary care providers are trained to prevent, diagnose, and treat conditions you may have across your whole life span. Primary care includes preventive services like diabetes and cancer ...

  5. What Is a Primary Care Physician? - WebMD

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    A primary care physician is a health manager. They are in clinics, long-term care facilities, private practices, outpatient hospital settings, inpatient hospital settings, and group practices.

  6. What Is a Physician? What Do They Do and When to See One - WebMD

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    Physicians work to maintain, promote, and restore health by studying, diagnosing, and treating injuries and diseases. Physicians generally have six core skills: Patient care. Physicians have to ...

  7. Primary care physician - Wikipedia

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    Role in health care system. A primary care physician is usually the first medical practitioner contacted by a patient because of factors such as ease of communication, accessible location, familiarity, and increasingly issues of cost and managed care requirements. In many countries residents are registered as patients of a (local) family doctor ...

  8. What Is a Nurse Practitioner? - WebMD

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    A nurse practitioner (NP) is a health care professional who offers a wide range of acute, primary, and specialty care services, either alone or alongside a doctor.

  9. 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 ...