primary care
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- noun
- /ˈpraɪˌmɛri kɛr/
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atención primaria
- Your primary care physician will help you manage your overall health and refer you to specialists when needed.
- primary care provider
- primary care physician
- primary care nurse
What's your opinion on direct primary care or concierge care clinics?
- What's your opinion on direct primary care or concierge care clinics?
- On the flip side, we're developing a much broader base for things like primary care to enhance Wellness and prevention.
- If it lasts that long, then you're not being irrational if you go see your primary care doctor or an urgent care center.
- But right now, I mean, specialists are making double, triple, quadruple as much as as primary care doctors.
- The bell goes off, the primary care doctor is notified and the care team goes into gear.
- So that the cardiologist in this book is called Doctor Rogan and their long time primary care doctor is a guy named Doctor Fowles.
- The average primary care doctor has no clue about what the root cause is of all these epidemics.
- The most common problems are what full spectrum or primary care physician should be the best at.
- But that is a conversation that needs to be had between you and your primary care provider.
- Well, they can go to their primary care physician.
- And it's the most common primary care visit.
- So the UK is rather unusual in that it doesn't provide that for primary care services.
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If it lasts that long, then you're not being irrational if you go see your primary care doctor or an urgent care center.
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The bell goes off, the primary care doctor is notified and the care team goes into gear.
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Most mental health care does take place at primary care level.
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And it's the most common primary care visit.
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Uncertainty is a core feature of all medical practice, especially primary care.
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Improving the quality and safety of patients in primary care is a key clinical governance priority.
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Once established on treatment, the role of primary care is to encourage adherence.
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Prevention needs lifelong control of risk factors and is a fundamental role for primary care and the practice nurse.
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About 75% of child hospital admissions could be prevented with better primary care.
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UTIs are usually treated with antibiotics, and 80% are prescribed in primary care.
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Synonyms
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Basic health care you get first from a doctor or community clinic for everyday needs
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the basic or first level of medical care' is directly and transparently derived from 'primary' (first/basic) + 'care' (medical treatment or supervision). This compositional pattern is common cross-linguistically (e.g., Spanish atención primaria, French soins primaires) and follows a standard English noun-noun/adjective-noun combination that a B1 learner who knows both constituents can readily infer.
Etymology
Primary care comes from the idea that primary means 'first' and care means looking after someone. Imagine your local doctor's office as the first place you go for medical help, so Primary care means the basic medical help people get before seeing a 'specialist'.