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

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   A physician is a general term for a doctor who has earned a medical degree. Physicians work to maintain, promote, and restore health by studying, diagnosing, and treating injuries and diseases.

3. 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.

4. What Is an Internist? What They Do, When to See One ... - WebMD

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   The doctor wants to get a complete picture of your health. As part of your physical exam , your an internist typically will: Look at your general appearance, including your posture and how you move

5. What Is a Primary Care Physician? - WebMD

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   Your primary care doctor can examine you, order blood tests and other tests, make a diagnosis, and prescribe medications. If you have a chronic condition like diabetes, hypertension, asthma, or ...

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

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   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 internist treats most common medical issues ...

7. 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 ...

8. 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 ...

9. Family medicine - Wikipedia

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   Hospitals, clinics, emergency departments, long-term care. Family medicine [note 1] is a medical specialty within primary care that provides continuing and comprehensive health care for the individual and family across all ages, genders, diseases, and parts of the body. [2] [3] The specialist, who is usually a primary care physician, is named a ...