General Physician
General Physicians are highly trained specialists who provide a range of non-surgical health care to adult patients. They care for difficult, serious, or unusual medical problems and continue to see the patient until these problems have resolved or stabilized. Much of their work takes place with hospitalized patients and most general physicians also see patients in their consulting rooms. Their broad range of expertise differentiates GeneralPhysicians from other specialists who limit their medical practice to problems involving only one body system or to a special area of medical knowledge. ROLES OF A GENERAL PHYSICIAN CONSULTANT General physician s are consultants who care for patients with special or difficult problems. General physicians only see patients who are referred to them by other doctors, usually by the patient's own general practitioner. Global Approach: Whether the referral identifies one health problem or many, the general physician's assessment is alway...