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Family and General Practitioners
Diagnose, treat, and help prevent diseases and injuries that commonly occur in the general population.
Other names for Family and General Practitioners:
Board Certified Family Physician, Doctor, Emergency Medicine Physician, Emergency Room Doctor (ER Doctor), Family Medicine Physician, Family Physician, Family Practice Medical Doctor (FP MD), Family Practice Physician, Family Practitioner, Internal Medicine Physician, Medical Director, Medical Doctor (MD), Medical Staff Physician, Occupational Medicine Physician, Occupational Physician, Pediatrician, Physician, Physicians and Surgeons, Police Surgeon, Primary Care Provider, Public Health Physician, Treatment Coordinator,
What do Family and General Practitioners do?
Deliver babies.
Operate on patients to remove, repair, or improve functioning of diseased or injured body parts and systems.
Plan, implement, or administer health programs or standards in hospital, business, or community for information, prevention, or treatment of injury or illness.
Prepare reports for government or management of birth, death, and disease statistics, workforce evaluations, or medical status of individuals.
Conduct research to study anatomy and develop or test medications, treatments, or procedures to prevent or control disease or injury.
Prescribe or administer treatment, therapy, medication, vaccination, and other specialized medical care to treat or prevent illness, disease, or injury.
Order, perform and interpret tests, and analyze records, reports and examination information to diagnose patients' condition.
Monitor the patients' conditions and progress and re-evaluate treatments as necessary.
Collect, record, and maintain patient information, such as medical history, reports, and examination results.
Explain procedures and discuss test results or prescribed treatments with patients.
Advise patients and community members concerning diet, activity, hygiene, and disease prevention.
Refer patients to medical specialists or other practitioners when necessary.
Direct and coordinate activities of nurses, students, assistants, specialists, therapists, and other medical staff.
Coordinate work with nurses, social workers, rehabilitation therapists, pharmacists, psychologists and other health care providers.
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Intubation forceps
Diagnostic or interventional vascular catheters or sets
Auditory function screening units
Automated external defibrillators AED or hard paddles
Infant scales
Blood collection syringes
Cervical collars or neck braces
Colposcopes or vaginoscopes or accessories
Surgical clamps or clips or forceps or accessories
Cryosurgery equipment or accessories
Surgical curettes or loops
Desktop computers
Dictation machines
Surgical clamps or clips or forceps or accessories
Otological instruments or accessories
Surgical clamps or clips or forceps or accessories
Electrocardiography EKG units
Electronic blood pressure units
Electronic stethoscopes or accessories
Electrosurgical or electrocautery equipment or accessories or related products
Surgical scissors
Vacuum blood collection tubes or containers
Fetal or gynecological ultrasound or echo units
Acute care fetal or maternal monitoring units or accessories
Glucose monitors or meters
Long term continuous electrocardiography EKG or holter monitoring systems
Clinical incubators or infant warmers
Intravenous tubing with catheter administration kits
Specimen collectors
Notebook computers
Laryngoscopes or accessories
Mercury blood pressure units
Mechanical stethoscopes or accessories
Medical exam or non surgical procedure gloves
Surgical lasers or accessories
Medical staff isolation or surgical masks
Medical tuning forks
Microscope slides
Surgical clamps or clips or forceps or accessories
Nasogastric tubes
Medical oxygen masks or parts
Resuscitation masks or accessories
Reflex hammers or mallets
Surgical scissors
Ophthalmoscopes or otoscopes or scope sets
Orthopedic splint systems
Ophthalmoscopes or otoscopes or scope sets
Oxygen therapy delivery system products accessories or its supplies
Medical oxygen masks or parts
Medical oxygen masks or parts
Personal computers
Personal digital assistant PDAs or organizers
Medical staff isolation or surgical masks
Pulse oximeter units
Eye charts or vision cards
Spirometers or its accessories or its supplies
Surgical clamps or clips or forceps or accessories
Medical suction cannulas or tubes or accessories
Medical suction or vacuum appliances
Surgical gloves
Surgical scalpels or knives or blades or trephines or accessories
Surgical clamps or clips or forceps or accessories
Suture needles
Suture removers
Suture removers
Tablet computers
Tourniquets
Medical ultrasound bone densitometers
Medical ultrasound or doppler or pulse echo or echography units for general diagnostic use
Surgical scissors
Surgical suction machines or vacuum extractors or ultrasonic surgical aspirators or regulators or accessories
Vaginal exam specula
Resuscitation masks or accessories
Binocular vision test sets or accessories
Technology used
Office suite software
Accounting software
Calendar and scheduling software
Information retrieval or search software
Medical software
Internet browser software
Electronic mail software
