general practitioner
noun
: a physician or veterinarian whose practice is not limited to a specialty
broadly
: generalist
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Our family doctor is a general practitioner.
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Even more important is education for general practitioners on how to help long COVID patients.
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Farah Aziz Annesha, The Mercury News, 16 Feb. 2025
Last year, Canadian patients faced a median wait of 30 weeks—roughly seven months—for treatment from a specialist following referral by a general practitioner, according to the Fraser Institute, a Vancouver think tank.
—Sally Pipes, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
Half of the patients received routine medical care from general practitioners, the other half were instructed to use the Kardia monitor twice a week to take 30-second recordings of their heart rate.
—IEEE Spectrum, 21 Sep. 2017
Newsweek reached out to general practitioner Dr. Deepali Misra-Sharp to find out more.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 8 Dec. 2024
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Farah Aziz Annesha, The Mercury News, 16 Feb. 2025
Last year, Canadian patients faced a median wait of 30 weeks—roughly seven months—for treatment from a specialist following referral by a general practitioner, according to the Fraser Institute, a Vancouver think tank.
—Sally Pipes, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
Half of the patients received routine medical care from general practitioners, the other half were instructed to use the Kardia monitor twice a week to take 30-second recordings of their heart rate.
—IEEE Spectrum, 21 Sep. 2017
Newsweek reached out to general practitioner Dr. Deepali Misra-Sharp to find out more.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 8 Dec. 2024
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general practitioner
noun
: a physician or veterinarian whose practice is not limited to a specialty
Dr. Thomas, Sr., could carry virtually the full armamentarium of the medicine of his day in a single black bag, and very nearly all of medical knowledge in his head. Today the general practitioner is a vanishing breed, and specialists cannot use their time effectively traveling from patient to patient.—John Steele Gordon, American Heritage
John Steele Gordon, American HeritageThe primary-care doctor is gaining new respect in Washington. Battles may be breaking out left and right over the various health-care bills emerging from Congress, but reformers on both sides agree that general practitioners should be given a central role in uniting the fragmented U.S. medical system.—Catherine Arnst, Business Week
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