what does "general practice" mean in a medical clinit?

Question

I need to see a doctor about this infection I have on my big toe possibly an ingrown toenail, but how do I know what kind of clinic or doctor to go to? What does "general practice" and "family practice" mean?

Answer 1

it means they have a generalized medical degree, but didn't decide to specialize in anything. these doctors are usually a first point of contact for people.

Answer 2

General Practice Meaning

Answer 3

A "general practitioner" refers to a doctor that's not a specialist in any given field. When a doctor graduates from med school, and finishes his/her residency, that's the title they get. If they want to go on for further education, then they'd be a cardiologist, podiatrist, pediatrician, etc...

A "family practitioner" generally refers to a doctor that focuses on treating everyone in a given family as their patient. This provides them with more of the family's medical history. Generally, this type of doctor has been in practice for some time. They may or may not have additional education under their belts.

Answer 4

Contrary to popular belief this usage is not lazy or indecent nor is it as recent as many of you seem to think. At least as far back as the time of the American Revolution pls or plz was used in place of please in correspondence , again after the introduction of the telegraph, and most recently with the advent of text messaging, and all for the same reason, cost. During the early days of our country both paper and ink were expensive, so there were accepted methods of abbreviation to cram as much information into a letter as possible pls (or plz) was one example of this. When sending telegrams you were charged by the word (as in typing every 5 characters not actual words) so once again pls was used (among many other shortcuts u for you and so on) to make the sending of a message as cost effective as possible. As for text messaging, when first introduced, you may recall, we were charged per message we sent, so cutting letters out of messages meant a single text could be sent instead of two. It became a habit that carried over onto the internet, even though the need for the abbreviation no long exists,,,,to be fair though I am fairly sure you type OK or okay instead of Orl Korrekt which is the widely accepted original phrase the abbreviation came from, so can you really cast stones?

Answer 5

General practice is a doctor that sees many patients and does several different types of medical care...like surgery, checkups,,,,things like that...They basically can do a general checkup on anything...a family doctor is kinda the same thing except they usually dont perform surgery. They keep track of family records and track hereditary disorders in a family's gene pool

Answer 6

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what does "general practice" mean in a medical clinit?
I need to see a doctor about this infection I have on my big toe possibly an ingrown toenail, but how do I know what kind of clinic or doctor to go to? What does "general practice" and "family practice" mean?

Answer 7

General and family practice are generally the same thing. You can see either one of them.

Answer 8

general practice and family practice are the same...they are trained in the "general" care of all age groups...they are not specialists....

Answer 9

a general internest. a primary doctor who practices general medicine, he would be the appropriate person to see for your toe. if you wait and it gets really infected you might have to see a specialist

Answer 10

It's a PCP. They do not specialize in anything. They are an MD.