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general practitioner
Sign in to saveAlso known as GP, General Practice Doctor, family physician, family doctor, family and general practitioner, generalist medical practitioners, primary care physician
medical doctor specialising as a generalist, usually working in primary care setting
Research
92,818 papers- Jaundice as a Diagnostic and Therapeutic Problem: A General Practitioner's Approach.Digestive diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
- General practitioner-pharmacist collaboration in Germany: an explanatory model.International journal of clinical pharmacy · 2019
- [Reasons for General Practitioner Shortage – a Comparison Between France and Switzerland].Praxis · 2016
- General Practitioner Educators on Clinical Debrief: A Qualitative Investigation into the Experience of Teaching Third-Year Medical Students to Care.Teaching and learning in medicine · 2024
- GENERAL practitioner.The Broadway · 1947
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- healthcare provider
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- male form of label
- všeobecný lekár
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- Category:General practitioners
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- General practitioners
- female form of label
- všeobecná lekárka
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- short name
- GP
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Encyclopedic overview
A general practitioner (GP) is a doctor who specialises in general practice. GPs have distinct expertise and experience in providing whole person medical care, whilst managing the complexity, uncertainty and risk associated with the continuous care they provide. By contrast with specialist physicians, GPs do not have a specific specialist area; they can diagnose and treat many different conditions, while also determining when a patient needs to see a doctor with more specialised training in a particular area. Generally, they participate more in outpatient care as opposed to inpatient care. The term primary care physician is used in the United States.
GPs provide personal, family, and community-orientated comprehensive primary care that includes diagnosis, continues over time and is anticipatory as well as responsive
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