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primary care

NOUN
first-contact medical care
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The transition from pregnancy care to primary care can have important long-term consequences.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

The Welsh government said it was increasing investment in primary care and recruiting up to 100 extra GPs.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

“Even in primary care, even though we’re supposed to be preventive-focused, it ends up being very disease-focused,” she told me.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

In many rural areas, health centers are sometimes the only source of primary care.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

We’ve had people come in saying they want to sue some specialist, and we’ll say, ‘We don’t think that doctor was negligent. We think it’s your primary care doctor who was at fault.’

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell


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