When it comes to protecting your health, if there is anyone you can rely upon, it is your physician. Your physician or your doctor is the person who can evaluate your medical condition, treat you accordingly and guide you through your illness. Choosing your physician becomes a very important decision as that is the first step towards treating your illness. Your physician is someone you can trust completely, not only for your medical condition, but for your emotional condition as well.
– General physicians
General physicians are those who treat general medical illnesses and are trained in all medical areas. Most of the times they are family doctors who treat and take care of the whole family. When there is a situation that demands additional care in any medical specialty, they put you across specialist physicians. It is comfortable for you and your family to trust the specialists, when they are referred to you by your regular general physician.
– Specialist physicians
These are specialists is a particular area of medicine or surgery and they deal with only that particular system. For example, ophthalmologist deals with diseases of the eye, or orthopedist deals with bones and joints.
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