NOUN
- medical practice that provides health care regardless of age or sex while placing emphasis on the family unit
How To Use family practice In A Sentence
- It makes clear non-religious cultural and family practices associated with a particular race fall within the protection of equalities legislation. The Sun
- How will family practice integrate into the current health care system?
- The questionnaire was pretested with family practice patients in Kingston and found appropriate for the Canadian context.
- The average adult gets three colds per year, each lasting an average of nine days, says Jane Sadler, M. D. , a family practice physician at Baylor-Garland Hospital in Garland, Texas.
- Benjamin completed her residency in family practice at the Medical Center of Central Georgia (1987) and has served as CEO of the Bayou La Batre Rural Health Clinic since its founding in 1990. Obama taps surgeon general
- All of those graduates do residencies, either in family practice, which takes two years, or in specialties such as dermatology, which require four to seven more years of training. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
- Less than 9 percent of patients perform a thorough skin self-examination every few months, reports Family Practice News.
- Medical students now often opt for more highly paid specialties even when they may prefer family practice, the academy said.
- As reported in The Journal of Family Practice, a patient complained of itching that had lasted for about six months in and near an areola, but a clinical examination turned up no skin changes or other reason for the itching.
- Even though the patient was not on the family practice service, the resident accompanied him to the intensive care unit while a staff member contacted his private physician.
