Sentences with phrase «primary care doctors often»

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As other eating disorder experts point out, a primary care doctor or pediatrician is often more likely to see an overweight teen's weight loss as a positive rather than investigating how that weight loss is occurring and whether it's healthy.

Today, about one - third of the nation lives in a medically underserved area, places where doctors or clinics are in short supply and patients often have to travel for miles or hours in order to find a primary care provider.

In states where naturopathic medicine is regulated, NDs act as family doctors, often serving as primary care providers for insurance companies and general practitioners for families.

Primary care doctors are often the first to diagnose GERD by taking a detailed history of symptoms, according to the Mayo Clinic.

Many parents lack health insurance or a primary care doctor, so student attendance is negatively affected by illness more often than in more well - off schools.

Misuse of hospitals for non-emergency or preventable conditions is often a symptom of not having access to outpatient care and primary care doctors, either because of lack of insurance or lack of providers.

While medical assistants work under the direction of a doctor, a physician's assistant may often work independently and may even be primary care providers at a clinic where the doctor works part - time.

I have often found people come to see me only after it has been recommended by their primary care doctor.