The chain has been laying claim to those Americans who lack a primary care doctor.
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Americans will be able to keep the primary care doctor or pediatrician they choose.
More often a patient will just go to whatever hospital or specialist the primary care doctor recommends.
And when they get sick, they go to the ER instead of calling their primary care doctor.
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Ms. Sevrence lined up a new primary care doctor and a neurologist, as well as a pain specialist.
The hospital makes the appointment with a primary care doctor before they're discharged, to ensure they can get one.
Since I don't know the specific details about your condition, I encourage you to visit your primary care doctor or dermatologist for the best care.
Its found little relation between the supply of primary care doctors in a region the percentage of people who see a primary care doctor each year.
They continue training in residency programs that allow them the option to graduate and practice as a primary care doctor, or pursue fellowship to sub-specialize in a specific area.
The question: Do smartphone devices really work well enough for the average patient and primary care doctor to dive in, or are early adopters just going for the cool factor?
Surveyors also asked doctors whether they are accepting new patients: It was most difficult to find a new adult primary care doctor more than half of those practices were full.
Obviously, the best thing is to have a primary care doctor you absolutely trust, but ultimately, you have to be your own advocate, or have a close family member or friend be one.
Amid a primary care doctor shortage, eligible patients will need all of the doctors they can get given the health law expands Medicaid coverage to millions more Americans effective Jan. 1, 2014 for participating states.
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When healthcare search firm Merritt Hawkins helped hospitals look for doctors just a few years ago, about one in four clients were looking for a solo practicing physician, often a primary care doctor who would open up shop in a small community.
"It's a little bit of detective work, " says Charles Cutler, a primary-care doctor in Norristown, Pa.
Naren James is the only primary-care doctor for two central-Kentucky clinics, 25 miles apart.
When she told her primary-care doctor, he was so surprised she made him call the specialist, she says.
Cherie Serota, 48, was told by her primary-care doctor in early 2009 that she was on the brink of having Type 2 diabetes.
Knowing she had been to Africa, they thought it was "a bad parasite she had caught, " said her primary-care doctor, Walter "Bo" Griffey III.
In all, around 65m Americans live in federally-designated primary-care health-professional shortage areas (HPSAs), which are regions with 2, 000 or more residents per primary-care doctor.
Young adults often fall into a medical void after they leave their pediatrician and don't have a primary-care doctor until their 30s or 40s, which worries many health-care experts.
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Practically speaking, if you are going to see a busy primary-care doctor for your evaluation, the time available to take a history may be brief, and access to neuropsychological testing nonexistent.
If you cannot get a referral from someone you know, ask your primary-care doctor if she is expert in ADD, and if not, to whom would she recommend that you go.
After Mr. Davidson was recently referred to a cardiologist because of some incidents of dizziness, his primary-care doctor at his next visit had the specialist's notes and test results available electronically.
Experts say it is increasingly important for patients to lock in a primary-care doctor soon because of expected increased demand for physicians starting in 2014, when the new federal health-overhaul law will add millions of people to the health-insurance rolls.
Of course, Republicans agree, women should have direct access to a gynaecologist or obstetrician (instead of having to see a primary-care doctor first), and of course patients should have guaranteed access to emergency-room treatment and the right to know all the medical options and appeal against an insurer's decision.
Thanks to this landmark legislation, women joining new health plans have the ability to choose their own doctor from any primary care provider, OB-GYN, or pediatrician in their health plan's network without a referral.
The NHS Alliance, which represents primary care, said it was vital that no other doctor was allowed to get away with crimes in the way that Shipman did.
The Obama Kremlin, er, White House, claims its clandestine doctor survey was simply a fact-finding mission to determine possible shortages among primary care physicians.
To make matters worse, Fisher found that patients in high-cost areas were actually less likely to receive low-cost preventive services, such as flu and pneumonia vaccines, faced longer waits at doctor and emergency-room visits, and were less likely to have a primary-care physician.
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