Synonyms for primary care
pri·ma·ry care

Princeton's WordNet

1. primary carenoun

   the medical care received on first contact with the medical system (before being referred elsewhere)

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1. • Medical Care

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1. Robert Centor:

   Somebody has to step up, if you’re a primary care physician, it’s incumbent on you to have the discussion with patients before and especially after they get sick about goals. If we don’t know a patient’s goals, they can’t get the best possible care.

2. Christopher Holstege:

   Very few of these cases were admitted to the hospital, the question is, how many actually needed to go to an emergency department, and could costs have been decreased by either calling the poison center if it's envenomation with something that's poisonous, or talking to a primary care doctor ?

3. Ann Kurth:

   It’s a great opportunity for primary care clinicians to identify people who are at a higher risk to be counseled about prevention and treated if needed.

4. Art Caplan:

   You have no right to be taken care of by a primary care doctor. There's still no right to health care that way -- the doctor has the ability to decline.

5. David Levine:

   Although virtual urgent care and in-person urgent care have not been compared head-to-head, virtual urgent care has its downsides – indirect physical exam, difficult access to testing, and unclear follow-up, while the quality of care is not perfect anywhere, a patient’s primary care doctor should be a person’s first point of contact.