Nomenclature: Appropriateness of Primary Health Care Physician
Abstract
It is arguably a matter of public interest that the continuing confusion emanating from multiple designation of clinicians involved in continuing care be urgently debated and resolved. It is currently accepted that the designations general practitioner family practitioner, family physician and primary health care physician can be used interchangeably. This confusion is not encountered in all other disciplines involved in health care. Accepting that these four designations mean one and the same person let us now examine the English meaning of general, family and primary.
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