Synonyms for primary care
pri·ma·ry care

Princeton's WordNet

1. primary carenoun

   the medical care received on first contact with the medical system (before being referred elsewhere)

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1. • Medical Care

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1. Peter Antall:

   Telehealth offers a safe channel to obtain expert medical guidance quickly, care teams can screen patients, assign risk, answer questions, and recommend the next steps a patient should take. This capability greatly minimizes the demands on in-person primary care, urgent care, [Emergency Department], etc.

2. Garima Sharma:

   Making sure that these women actually are appropriately followed after their delivery and that there is a warm handoff between [obstetrics] and [maternal-fetal medicine] to their primary care doctors or preventive cardiologists who can then talk about optimizing cardiovascular risks and reduction of these risk factors post-pregnancy in the postpartum time frame is crucial.

3. Huseyin Naci:

   According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, roughly one third of doctors prescribe exercise in primary care, this is promising, but more doctors should discuss and give brief advice to their patients about the benefits of exercise and refer patients with diabetes to structured exercise programs.

4. Brian Marcotte:

   Telehealth can become an extension of primary care to free up physicians to focus on more complicated issues.

5. Maureen Monaghan:

   Presenting real world comparisons of costs for using primary care or emergency care without insurance vs. with insurance could help young adults see the value of maintaining continuous health insurance.