After one too many midnight panic attacks, Chanda talked to her family doctor.
Their son Richard was at home when pins and needles took him to the family doctor for a check up.
Dr Chisholm warned that government reforms - including a maximum 48 hour wait to see a family doctor - would be impossible to deliver unless more GPs were recruited and more funds made available.
For example, the average wait to see a new family doctor in this country is just under three weeks, according to a 2009 survey by medical consultancy Merritt Hawkins.
Sarah, from Chesham, Buckinghamshire, was the fifth member of her family to become a doctor.
Whether individuals should need a referral from their family doctor to have their DNA scanned would seem unnecessary.
Then the California exchange board will vote on whether vision benefits can be offered directly or only as part of a packaged benefit with health plans where you may need a referral from your family doctor to visit your optometrist.
Bottom line: To meet the promise of free preventive care nationwide, every family doctor in America would have to work full-time delivering it, leaving no time for all the other things they need to do.
The government has retained some crucial objectives, notably the pledge to achieve by 2008 a maximum all-in waiting time for elective treatment, from a family doctor's referral to the operating table, of 18 weeks.
Instead, it aims to help those people who want to be able to obtain reputable products, but who do not want to get them via a family doctor, perhaps because they are embarrassed about their condition.
Some DPC providers such as WhiteGlove Health and Organic Medicine Now take it a step further and make house calls that harken back to the days of your family doctor stopping by your house just a few decades ago.
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If the president is trying to ensure that every senior has a family nurse, instead of a family doctor, that last proposal is the way to do it.
Thinking he was suffering from insomnia, his family doctor suggested zolpidem to help him sleep.
Changes in a person's condition would be included in an email sent to the person's family or doctor.
As parents are learning more about the child's allergic reaction symptoms, I suggest they bring family members or caretakers to doctor appointments.
Fletcher is a family doctor who lost to Baesler by 12 points in 1996 but won the job when Baesler left two years later.
The second was when we were taken to the exit of the emergency room, along with all of the other drunks on a Saturday night, was given a cursory examination by a registrar, then handed a walking stick and told to go home and see my family doctor - no transport, in the middle of the night, no medical care.
To find a doctor, ask for recommendations from friends and family or go to your insurer's website.
But progress is being made to try to improve this within GP (or family doctor) training.
But Irvine-born Robb, who works as a water bailiff and sometimes gamekeeper, is keen to pick up the pieces of his career after being assured by a doctor specialising in the condition and his family GP that he is fit to resume boxing.
Before going to the doctor, gather your immunization records and family health history, says Jeffrey J.
The family found a reason to get him to the doctor for a physical.
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Her mother sobbed as a doctor described the family's reaction to concerns that the child had been sexually abused.
For about 10 million children in the United States, a trip to the doctor can mean a serious drain on the family budget.
DiLoreto wants a patient near the end of his or her life to be able to have their medical care wishes known beyond just their family doctor, particularly when a dying patient may have seen several different doctors, nurses or care givers in the final months or days of their lives.
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This has eroded the unique relationship once had with the family doctor and can mean that GPs feel reluctant to raise sensitive issues during a one-off consultation.
Ms. Felice received a letter from her pediatrician a few years ago stating that because the family chose not to vaccinate, it needed to find another doctor.
At Kaiser Permanente Northern California, a group of nonprofit hospitals and health plans with 3.2 million members, pediatric patients receive a letter when they turn 18 inviting them to choose their own doctor among a group of internists and family physicians who have a special interest and training in young adult issues.
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