Dr. Greden said many general practitioners could effectively treat people with mild to moderate depression.
Another obstacle is that many general practitioners are uncomfortable talking about depression, said Dr. David Kupfer, chairman of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, who has studied trends in treating depression.
The company has also held roughly 7,000 seminars around the country for doctors, including many general practitioners, that advocated the use of powerful long-lasting narcotics like OxyContin in pain treatment.
All general practitioners use such hospital facilities as X-ray departments and laboratories, and many general practitioners work in hospitals in emergency rooms (casualty departments) or as clinical assistants to consultants, or specialists.
The government's original plan, presented in a bill to Parliament earlier this year, instantly became a political punching bag, opposed by unions, specialists' groups, hospitals, many general practitioners and a number of prominent Liberal Democrats, who are the Conservatives' partners in the government.
The mobile teams were needed, Dr. de Jong said, because many general practitioners, either for moral reasons or perhaps because of uncertainty about the law, refused to help suffering patients to die after it had become too late to find another doctor.
Studies have shown that many general medical practitioners refer their patients to complementary/alternative medicine (CAM) practitioners and believe in the therapeutic benefit of these modalities.
7 In many countries, general practitioners are the first physicians to encounter patients with symptoms suggestive of pulmonary embolism.
In many municipalities, general practitioners in PHC have to take responsibility of all diabetic patients living in their district.
[ 4] Due to the rarity of HD many GPs (General Practitioners) and health workers do not have any real understanding of the disease, or the needs of patients and their carers.
Also from the perspective of the nurses, a nursing home physician could be useful due to his good accessibility and because they don't have to deal with many different general practitioners: "Every nurse wants to have a physician in the home because it would also be easier because of the logistics.
