1, whose customers cover people of different genders and ages;
2. Its services involve physical, psychological and social health issues.
The difference between general practitioners and western medicine:
1, different service purposes and responsibilities.
(1) Western medicine is responsible for the diagnosis and treatment of internal medical diseases for a period of time after the formation of internal medical diseases, with the aim of understanding and fighting diseases according to the in-depth study of human life and the nature of diseases.
(2) General practitioners are responsible for long-term care of patients who can't be cured in the healthy period, early illness or even after specialist diagnosis and treatment. Its purpose is to pay attention to people rather than diseases. Regardless of whether the clients have diseases or patients, general practitioners should provide satisfactory care for them, that is, they have an unshirkable responsibility for their clients.
2. Contents and methods of services
(1) Western medicine is at the top of the health service pyramid, and most of them deal with serious diseases in biomedicine, so it is often necessary to use expensive medical resources to solve the difficult problems of a few people. Its way is all kinds of high technology in internal medicine.
(2) General practitioners are at the bottom of the health service pyramid, dealing with most common health problems. They make full use of the health resources of communities and families, maintain the health of most people at low cost, and intervene in various chronic diseases and their functional problems that cannot be cured by specialized medical care.
Extended data:
General practitioners provide general medical services. Also known as family doctor or family doctor, it is the main provider of health management services. General practitioners have unique attitudes, skills and knowledge, which makes them qualified to provide continuous and comprehensive medical, nursing, health maintenance and preventive services for every member of the family.
General practitioners deal with common diseases, frequently-occurring diseases and general emergencies in the form of outpatient service, which is generally omnipotent; Another feature of community general practitioners' work is on-site service. General practitioners often deal with family patients in the form of home visits, and establish their own family beds and medical files according to the different conditions of patients.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-general practitioner