Or bypass the family doctor, who is off for the weekend, and head to the more-expensive acute care clinic?
Their son Richard was at home when pins and needles took him to the family doctor for a check up.
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.
Mr Jenkins said presumed consent would damage the delicate relationship between the donor, the donor's family and the doctor.
The family ended up with an elderly family doctor who said he had "seen it all" and was willing to treat the children if they got sick, Ms. Felice said.
The series, which is screened after the 9pm watershed, is aimed at a more adult audience than the family-orientated Doctor Who, where Barrowman's Captain Jack character first featured.
Imagine the following: your family doctor says you need emergency heart surgery and books you into the top clinic in the country, which is out of state.
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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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For example, if a mother is bringing her child into the doctor's office with repeated stomach aches, the doctor should ask about whether the family is experiencing a deployment so as to better examine the problem.
The next day, we invited her sisters and close family friends, called the doctor, and prepared for her death.
Changes in a person's condition would be included in an email sent to the person's family or doctor.
The emergency doctor told the family one plan, the admitting internist described another, and the consulting specialist a third.
The fact that a trusted family doctor could kill so many of his patients was hard to believe, let alone understand.
Where we do understand we are all in this together, that when a child is sick and can't see a doctor, the family loses everything because someone had an accident, when a mother or a father lies awake at night worrying about how they possibly care for the people they love.
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.
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.
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.
Because nothing should get in the way of the relationship between a family and their doctor.
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For about 10 million children in the United States, a trip to the doctor can mean a serious drain on the family budget.
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.
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.
This team may evolve as your child's needs change, and your family doctor or pediatrician can coordinate the care.
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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They could be placed in picture frames and alert someone - a doctor or family member - if the regular pattern of movement is altered.
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.
If the PGM takes off and regulators let him, your family doctor could buy one--and so could you.
That time the doctor arrived within two hours and recommended her family drive her to hospital in Perth, where she spent two days in the high dependency unit.
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