Primary care

A primary care physician is a doctor who provides regular medical care for his or her patients through routine exams and bloodwork. In this profession, a doctor often diagnose patients who share their complaints and as a result either suggest more care, such as seeing a specialist, or prescribing medicine or running additional tests. While job shadowing Dr. Adrian Oribello, accompanied by Justine Oribello and Ashley Kim, I learned that these specific physicians are essentially the backbone to the medical community; they diagnose patients and provide a wide range of medical care in order to treat the assumed illness or disease. According to Dr. Oribello, the most challenging part of being a primary care physician is examining patients who have pre-diagnosed themselves through…

Primary care is underdeveloped in most rural areas. At least that has been my experience growing up in a small town in Central Pennsylvania, and working in a tertiary Emergency Department in Williamsport. As both a medical scribe and a patient care technician, I have found that patients and families often feel they received poor outpatient care from their primary physicians. The most common complaints are the wait time to get into the office being too long, and when in the office they are more…

Pediatric primary care in the United States does not only encompass the primary care physician, but include both, insurers, policy makers, and other health and community providers such as the schools and childcare centers. A healthy developmental stages of the child determines the child's adulthood. So to say, the way a child is cared for has an implication through adulthood. According the Healthy people 2020, health promotion and disease prevention is the ultimate goal for every child in the…

The lack of primary care impacts the delivery of primary care in rural areas in several ways; which in include the: location, availability to maintain and retain health providers, and cost of health care. This may be associated with the distance to primary care facilities and inability to obtain transportation to primary care facilities. Rural areas may also not be able to retain and maintain primary health providers. Many providers are unaware of how rural areas primary care systems…

Primary care is generally the initial point of care for individuals with chronic conditions. Primary care providers’ (PCP) responsibility is to yield preventative care and educate healthy way of living. Included in their role are making referrals to specialists when required. The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is the biggest combined health care system in the United States; it is presently stirring towards the fulfillment of the transformation to a primary care-based structure to render a…

There is a high demand for primary care services in the community due to the aging population, chronic conditions, and the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. The Association of American Medical Colleges (2015), projected a scarcity of 31,000 primary care physicians by 2025 and APN’s are being educated to fill the void. APNs are registered nurses who have graduated from a masters or doctoral institution and have advanced knowledge in disease management, prevention, and health promotion…

Primary healthcare is the healthcare provision process carried on every day with the intention of maintaining and restoring the aspired health status in community. For most people in the world, primary healthcare is usually the first contact there have with health facilities and professions. It is also the most frequent means of healthcare provision that they are exposed to. Therefore, primary healthcare can be defined as the most available healthcare facilities in the community. The aim of…

Preventative care is absolutely essential in the promotion of health and wellness. As you clearly stated, currently there are not appropriate prevention measures regarding prevention routinely implemented in primary care. Furthermore, obesity is an excellent example of a disease processes that must be prevented due to the profound effects it has on physical and psychological health, such as diabetes and depression. As health care providers we must focus on practicing primary, secondary and…

In the article, “Primary Care Training and the Evolving Healthcare System”, Lauren A. Peccoralo, Kathryn Callhan, Rachel Stark, and Linda V. DeCherrie look into the impact of the Affordable Care Act towards primary-care practice, as well as explore the various programs created to influence the recruitment of medical students into the primary-care sector. The article also provides recommended preparations in training to improve the practice of primary-care professionals to efficiently deliver…

According to Medical schools and teaching hospitals, the United States faces a shortage of physicians by 2025. The poor distribution of physicians leads with too many in rich areas and too few in poor rural communities. The shortage of primary care physicians require surgeons especially those who treat disease more common to older people such as cancer. Also, the country needs specialties to treat an aging population that will live with chronic disease growingly. As we know many Americans have…