- General medicine has been the basis of patient care for centuries, however, they state that they are downplayed, unlike specialist doctors.
- Despite this, general medicine constitutes the first level of medical care.
- What is its importance?
The general practitioner is the professional medicine who has the knowledge and skills necessary to diagnose and resolve medical treatment and with simple procedures most of the ailments that the human being suffers in his life, from childhood to old age, with actions frequently carried out in the doctor’s office or in the patient’s home.
In the last phase of life, where the degenerative diseases which, due to their chronicity, make permanent care more necessary. Support and a good relationship with a family doctor it can be the simple and low-cost solution in most of these cases.
However, in the country they are LITTLE valued, as expressed by users on Twitter.
How much we need to rescue the figure of the general practitioner, the one who might attend to almost everything and whose salary guaranteed him a decent life in his humanistic service.
– Hernan Quezada SJ (@hernan_quezada) May 18, 2022
GENERAL MEDICINE: the basis of patient care
The general medicine has been for centuries the basis of attention of the sick. This fact known and recognized by educational authorities and by those charged with organizing health care systems has not led to this form of exercise being the most important part.
At least from the academic point of view and their ability to solve problems doctors daily, of the health care system in Mexico; that’s right, even acknowledging the efforts that have been made in recent decades important institutions such as the IMSS and the ISSSTE in this sense. If the investment figures for second and third level medicine are analyzed, they are incomparably higher than those for the first. These last segments of medical care will continue to be overloaded with work as long as good first-class medicine is not organized.
Importance of the general practitioner
Despite this, the general medicine It constitutes the first level of medical care since the doctor is professionally trained to diagnose and manage different common pathologies.
General practitioners, also known as primary care or family physicians, make up the first contact for the patient when they feel sick. In fact, the general practitioner makes a diagnosis of the state of health of the patient using simple procedures, solving 90% of cases, without the need for any specialist to intervene.
The family doctor is the specialist whose area of knowledge covers the person. Therefore, unlike a specialist doctor who focuses on solving a specific problem, the primary care doctor has a global vision of each disease that the patient has.
Additionally, for patients who have chronic health problems and continuous over time, it is more than usual for them to go to health centers or private clinics in search of help from the general practitioner.
In fact, primary care doctors usually establish different routine controls with their patients where the pathology, its development and the medical treatment that has been established are reevaluated, altering the medications that are used.
For this and more, it is necessary to begin to respect THE PROFESSION of general practitioners.
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