PREVENTIVE MEDICINE AND THE GENERAL PRACTITIONER

Occupational medicine and the general practitioner.

A substantial amount of occupational medicine is practised by primary care physicians and this applies throughout the world. In the UK, if we assume that 1 in 10 primary care physicians may have some attachment or interest then there may be as many as 3200 general practitioners (GPs) practising occupational medicine, even if this is simply an arrangement to see employees from a local company if...

The Medical Practitioner as an Asset to Preventive Medicine.

" MEDICINE," wrote Plato more than two thousand years uigo, "is the science of health." To-day it is popularly regarded as the science of disease; otherwise we should be in the iab,it of paying for medical attendance only while we were actually maintained in good health, and yet, as matters now are, we are taught to live when our life is wellnigh spent. A revolution in act as well as in thought...

Preventive Medicine in General Practice

setting for prevention (9), (10); the general practitioner has frequent contact with the majority of a defined population, including those at risk. He or she is perceived as credible and trustworthy, communicates on a one to one basis with the patient and is supported by a primary care team. The potential for preventive medicine in general practice is beginning to be explored (11)?(15). Despite...

The preventive medicine milestone project: public health and general preventive medicine.

Certification in family medicine: worth it for a general practitioner?

Many, many years ago, when it was time to apply for internships and residencies, I found myself in a family medicine program interview quoting a paper I had recently read that claimed no substantial differences in the practice patterns of general practitioners a few years after rotating internship and of family doctors a few years after family medicine residency.1 It was a tactless point to rai...