primary care

Largely due to stigma and the failure to educate physicians, many primary care physicians view the treatment of addiction as outside their scope of practice.

“It’s not like finding another primary care provider or orthopedic surgeon, and this is an exceedingly difficult task for someone who is mentally ill to accomplish,” Mark said.

This is the first large-scale, randomized trial to test the impact of standardized autism screening on early detection of autism in pediatric primary care.

My first primary care doctor said I didn’t have enough of a family history to need genetic testing, but I found a way around it.

There are around 80 physician associates working in Northern Ireland health trusts and in primary care.