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  2. 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.

  3. Health care - Wikipedia

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    Health care, or healthcare, is the improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people. Health care is delivered by health professionals and allied health fields. Medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, midwifery, nursing, optometry ...

  4. Primary care physician - Wikipedia

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    A patient having his blood pressure measured. 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.

  5. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center - Wikipedia

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    Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is a non-profit, tertiary, 915-bed teaching hospital and multi-specialty academic health science center located in Los Angeles, California. Part of the Cedars-Sinai Health System, the hospital has a staff of over 2,000 physicians and 10,000 employees, supported by a team of 2,000 volunteers and more than 40 community groups.

  6. Preventive Health: What Is It and Why Is It Important?

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    Preventive care for adults involves screening for chronic conditions like diabetes and heart disease, as well as immunizations against serious illnesses like the flu and COVID-19. It also involves ...

  7. Long-term care - Wikipedia

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    Long-term care. Elderly man at a nursing home in Norway. Long-term care ( LTC) is a variety of services which help meet both the medical and non-medical needs of people with a chronic illness or disability who cannot care for themselves for long periods. Long-term care is focused on individualized and coordinated services that promote ...

  8. What Are Health Equality and Equity, and Why Do They Matter?

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    Three people are standing behind a fence, trying to watch a parade as it passes by. One is tall, one is shorter, and one is a small child. The tall person can see over the fence, but the other two ...

  9. What Is a Health Care Agent? - WebMD

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    Look for someone you can talk to about hard decisions and who will support your choices. Your agent may have to ask doctors a lot of questions and push hard for what you want. Try to pick someone ...