Sentence examples for generalist physicians from inspiring English sources

In the United States, we have more specialists than generalist physicians.

According to the Health Affairs report, there are about 75 generalist physicians for every 100,000 individuals.

To examine the association between questionnaire length and response rate in a mailed survey of generalist physicians randomly selected from the American Medical Association master file.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the process and outcomes of care provided by gastroenterologists and generalist physicians (internists, family physicians, general surgeons) for GI conditions.

Instead, Mr. Langston explained, the emphasis is on using existing geriatricians as educators and consultants for the generalist physicians who will actually treat older patients.

We also surveyed 434 generalist physicians who served in 29 of these state programs and a matched comparison group of 723 nonobligated young generalist physicians.

This spring in the health policy journal Health Affairs, researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia and the federal Department of Health and Human Services published a study that projected a generalist physician shortage of 35,000 to 44,000 by the year 2025.

Because seeing an ob/gyn in addition to a generalist physician is associated with receiving recommended preventive services (even for heart disease), the findings suggest that non-elderly women who rely on a generalist alone may receive substandard preventive care.

Suddenly, the generalist physician was redefined from the doctor who had no specialty training to one who was specially educated to care for the whole patient; a doctor who specialized in the breadth of medical care rather than the deep knowledge of a single disease or organ system.

Some of these studies noticed a significant delay between the time when the patient receives his leave and when the generalist physician received the advice [18],[18].

However, this scanning service focuses mostly on the generalist physician and many specialties are not covered.