A general practitioner is another family medicine specialization name. Reviews on the activities of such doctors are usually positive. After all, if the doctor is a bad specialist, it will become clear very soon, but if he is good, then at the same speed he will become simply indispensable for any family.
The family doctor has a multidisciplinary specialization. His competence includes the diagnosis and treatment of most common diseases. Of course, in the event that no complications were detected during the illness. If the examination is carried out by a family doctor (patient reviews are recommended), there is no need to visit doctors and experts of different specializations, and this significantly saves both time and money.
In most cases in our country, a family doctor is a doctor who has a diploma of a general practitioner or pediatrician from one of the medical universities and a certificate testifying that he has been trained in the specialty of family medicine. For Russia, a family doctor is a relatively new concept. We began to use this term only in the early 90s, but in the United States this specialization was officially recognized back in 1969. Today, family medicine is the basis of the health care system in developed countries such as the USA, Canada and the United Kingdom.
In our country, it was decided to build a healthcare system on the principles of family medicine back in 1992. However, so far only a private paid clinic can afford to have a highly qualified specialist in family
medicine in Russia . A family doctor in ordinary municipal clinics is still a rarity.
Despite this, Russians are increasingly turning to specialists such as a family doctor. Reviews of friends, neighbors and just acquaintances about doctors who in a short time become family friends are the best advertising for family medicine. General practitioners are looking for an individual approach to each patient. Often they have been watching him from the day he was born and throughout their lives, they know his parents, and, accordingly, the medical history of his immediate family, which is not unnecessary in diagnosis.
A family doctor, as a rule, is involved in all medical studies conducted by other (narrow-profile) specialists with his patient. He always monitors such processes by telephone or in person and does not allow his colleagues to prescribe unnecessary examinations or treatment that could damage his patient.
Initial examination, planned diagnostics, complex therapy, medical procedures of various nature and even pregnancy monitoring are far from a complete list of functions performed by a family doctor. Reviews of women whom a family doctor observes during pregnancy are also very positive. After all, if the pregnancy proceeds normally, it is much more pleasant to meet a doctor at home, so to speak, over a cup of tea than in a sterile gynecologist’s office in the clinic.
By the way, most often paid clinics in Moscow practice examination of patients by family doctors at home. Of course, if it, examination, does not require any complex medical manipulations. In a home environment, a warm, trusting relationship that is especially important for children is easily established between the patient and the doctor .