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  2. What Is a Primary Care Physician? - WebMD

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    What Conditions Do Primary Care Physicians Treat? A primary care physician is a health manager. They are in clinics, long-term care facilities, private practices, outpatient hospital settings ...

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

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    Primary care is meant to be your main source for healthcare, one in which you have an ongoing partnership with your healthcare provider in the larger context of your community. Primary care is ...

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

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    A primary care physician (PCP) is a medical doctor trained to prevent, diagnose, and treat a wide range of illnesses and injuries in the general population. They may refer you to specialists for ...

  5. Primary care physician - Wikipedia

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    Primary care physician. A primary care physician (PCP) is a physician who provides both the first contact for a person with an undiagnosed health concern as well as continuing care of varied medical conditions, not limited by cause, organ system, or diagnosis. The term is primarily used in the United States.

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

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    An internist is a doctor only for adults. A family medicine doctor can treat people of all ages, but an internist only treats older adolescents and adults. Like a family medicine doctor, an ...

  7. Tips for Choosing Your PCP as an Older Adult - WebMD

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    Whether you need a primary care physician (PCP) for yourself or a loved one, choose one who you’re comfortable with. A trusting relationship between you and your doctor is key to ensuring open ...

  8. Primary care - Wikipedia

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    Primary care may be provided in community health centres. Primary care is a model of health care that supports first-contact, accessible, continuous, comprehensive and coordinated person-focused care. It aims to optimise population health and reduce disparities across the population by ensuring that subgroups have equal access to services.

  9. What Is a Family Practice Doctor? - WebMD

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    3 min read. Family practice doctors provide care to people of all ages. These generalists treat chronic conditions, evaluate symptoms, offer preventative care, and let people know when they need ...