There already is a specialty [ at least in the U.S.. ] of family medicine.
Medical care of children is very complex – someone needs to do it, and it is often the family medicine doctor.
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> Patients will increasingly see nurses, physiotherapists or pharmacists instead of GPs, says Frontier Economics study
I don’t really care what kind of health care professional I see if they’re able to help me out. The mindset of “need to see a GP” really needs to change.
The success metric here should be overall patient outcome, not success rate for seeing a particular practitioner type.
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There already is a specialty [ at least in the U.S.. ] of family medicine.
Medical care of children is very complex – someone needs to do it, and it is often the family medicine doctor.
> Patients will increasingly see nurses, physiotherapists or pharmacists instead of GPs, says Frontier Economics study
I don’t really care what kind of health care professional I see if they’re able to help me out. The mindset of “need to see a GP” really needs to change.
The success metric here should be overall patient outcome, not success rate for seeing a particular practitioner type.