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primary care

NOUN
first-contact medical care
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Researchers say the updated PREDIMED-Plus strategy could be used by primary care providers as a sustainable and cost efficient way to help prevent type 2 diabetes on a broad scale.

From Science Daily • May 19, 2026

Within 15 minutes, he said, the primary care doctor was urging him to go see a neurologist.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026

Dr Graham Mackenzie, NHS Lothian public health consultant, said: "We are working closely with colleagues in hospital and primary care to ensure that if any further cases arise they receive appropriate and timely care."

From BBC • May 6, 2026

The monthly cash-pay price for weight-loss pills in Amazon’s new GLP-1 program, which offers patients Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy and Eli Lilly’s Foundayo GLP-1 pills through its One Medical primary care arm.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 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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