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FAMILY
MEDICINE
Family Medicine or Family Practice is the medical
specialty which provides continuing and comprehensive
health care for the individual and family. It is the
specialty which integrates the biological, clinical, and
behavioral sciences. The scope of family practice
encompasses all ages, both sexes, each organ system and
disease entity.
More About
Family Medicine
Family medicine focuses on personal patient-physician
long term relationships. The family practice process is
unique from other medical fields in that it emphasizes
lasting, caring relationships with patients. Family
physicians are concerned with total health care and
integrating the biological, clinical and behavioral
sciences. Family medicine is not limited by the
patients’ age, sex, organ system or disease entity.
Family practice is patient centered and defined by human
needs.
Family practice became recognized as a specialty in
1969. Family medicine has achieved its goals of
reversing the decline of general medicine and providing
personal, front-line medical care to people of all
socioeconomic strata.
Family physicians receive training in six major medical
areas: pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, internal
medicine, psychiatry and neurology, surgery and
community medicine. Because of their extensive training,
they are skilled in treating anyone from a newborn age
to seniors. Family physicians develop a long term
relationship with their patients and know the entire
medical history of their patients. They are then able to
recommend necessary treatments based on their history
and extensive knowledge of the patient. Family
physicians treat conditions of all organ systems rather
than limiting their practice to specific organ systems.
Family medicine provides services ranging from
diagnosing/treating illnesses and providing preventative
care to personalized counseling to providing primary
care for serious health problems such as heart disease
or cancer. The physicians treat your whole health, the
whole person and practice today’s medicine while helping
you to continue to stay well. They take they extra time
to listen and then treat acute and chronic illnesses.
They take time to hear spoken and unspoken needs. They
emphasize health promotion and disease prevention.
Finally, family physicians are also experts at
recognizing rare but dangerous and treatable diseases.
They are also expected to meet the demands of multiple
health service systems.
Family medicine is a personal form of care. Physicians
help empower individuals and help the patients to take
care of themselves. A long term history of a
relationship between the patient and care provider helps
promote this type of care. This is possible by taking
the time to understand the patient’s life, knowing their
family and their family’s history. Family medicine is
devoted to the patient and the patient’s care with an
emphasis on the family unit. |
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